One of my colleagues at the fisheries committee in the Senate posed the question to the DFO officials who were on site. One of the concerns was that—and this struck me as odd—we haven't done this before. We don't have a regime set up that fits this system.
If that's the concern, they have time to do that. The coming into force would not be at royal assent; it would be at the direction of cabinet, which could be the next cabinet or the one after or whenever the system is ready. Their concern was that they hadn't done it before.
Of course, we've heard from other witnesses and from many others that this is done in other jurisdictions and done successfully.