Thank you for allowing me to speak, Mr. Chair.
I thank the witnesses for being here today. My remarks do not mean that I am not pleased to see them here today.
I am looking at the witness list, and we are missing groups who should have been here this morning. I would like to know how it can be that no one representing the gay and lesbian community is here. I know that attempts to contact them have been made since January, but I have heard that the letter did not arrive. It is important that Gai Écoute be here this morning. These are the people who were approached when these regulations were being developed. They were the ones behind them.
I hope that there will be another meeting because I am not happy with the fact that we will not be hearing some testimony about the impact on the gay and lesbian community this morning. What first caught our attention, in fact, was the discriminatory nature of a section of the regulations.