I think you've been very responsible, as was the previous minister, in recognizing that you cannot begin to implement legislation that is not passed. If the law does not exist, it is not right for a department to start implementing it prior to its existence and incurring costs in the process. So I think you've been very responsible in waiting for the passage of the bill. Frankly, once again, I lament the fact that we could not have had it passed more quickly.
There was a period of time when I believed the Liberal Senate would literally never pass the bill--and I mean that literally. I did not think they were going to pass it at all. If that had happened, and our government had gone ahead and spent a whole lot of resources on implementing it, then we would have been accused of spending implementation dollars on a bill that never came to fruition.