When I drafted the first piece of legislation, it did take a number of months. Many of these things were looked at, and consent is quite clear. It's understood. As I said, in my first two pieces of legislation and the Honourable Irwin Cotler's introduction, that paragraph was not part of it.
I think there was the best of intentions by providing additional wording around it, but unfortunately, just as it would have with the assisted dying legislation, it would have potentially created jurisdictional issues in the legislation. It doesn't necessarily add anything while creating potential jurisdictional issues.
As I said, I'm not a lawyer; it's just because I've spent so much time looking at these various versions of the legislation. If perhaps the parliamentary secretary, who is a lawyer, feels he could provide greater clarity, that would be tremendous, but if my explanation satisfies, then—