We understand each other in that one of the foundations of our society that is based on the rule of law is that the law applies equally to everyone. Now, governments can decide that a remission order will apply in a certain case, but it is the fundamental nature of our society that the same rules apply to everyone in exactly the same situation.
For the third time, I'm trying to understand how it is that with employees of JDS Uniphase in British Columbia we have remission orders and one treatment with regard to their stock option process, and we have other people, notably with Nortel here in the Ottawa region in particular, where they've already been banged out, many of them for several hundred thousand dollars up here; and now that Nortel is about to go bankrupt, they're going to get hit again for several hundred thousand dollars because of the deemed disposition.
How is it possible, in a society based on the rule of law ,to have different treatment for identical situations based on the same statute? That's my question for you, Mr. Baker.