All right. I'm not trying to be difficult. I'm trying to find a way for me to go ahead and support a piece of legislation that at the outset looks as though it could be flawed in some ways.
I'm a former park worker. I love animals. I dedicated a portion of my life as a conservation officer to protecting and conserving wild places and wild spaces. I know that a number of zoos, for example, have captive breeding programs. Take a look at Elk Island National Park, for example, in my home province of Alberta, which is unlike any other national park, yet a park fee still applies to that park. You can go in and see bison basically in captivity, because it's a fenced park. It's not a natural park where they are free to go wherever they want, and it's the same with the bison. Those bison from Elk Island National Park were used to establish a wild herd in Banff National Park.
I'm just wondering about precedence when it comes to the pieces of legislation.
I'm not going to argue or debate what people who know more about the science of cetaceans in captivity might do, but I'm here to discuss the merits of this piece of legislation.