Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
That's exactly my point. It's that I want to be very, very careful on this, so that I do not miss--and perhaps it can be pointed out during the course of this--where in our Constitution that expression is. I do not find it, so I will be very careful in going through this line by line: “freedom of peaceful assembly” and “freedom of association”.
We also have democratic rights: “Every citizen of Canada has the right to vote in an election of members of the House of Commons or of a legislative assembly and to be qualified for membership therein”. That clearly does not mean the House of Commons of Great Britain. That means the House of Commons of Canada. We cannot extrapolate this to mean that somehow there is extraterritorial application to this Constitution. It is about Canada.
It states, “No House of Commons and no legislative assembly shall continue for longer than five years from the date fixed for the return of the writs at a general election of its members”.