I have pages and pages of testimony from interns on this very point, including from the president of the Canadian Intern Association, Claire Seaborn, and Mr. Jonathan Champagne, executive director of the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations. We have consulted far and wide. Let me tell you what John Farrell has said, first about regulation versus legislation: “Firstly, we would prefer that most of the matters that are dealt with within...this bill be in legislation rather than regulations, because that would provide immediate clarity.”
Every lawyer in the land will tell you that a regulation can be changed by the government whenever the government wishes. That is why we would not wait to consult to get it “right”, as was said by Mr. Adler. We have no idea what will be in those regulations. We're not going to buy a pig in a poke. We're not going to treat our unpaid interns to second-class citizenship in this country, which is what the government's bill will do. We think that is simply wrong.