As Ms. Gibson said, the Assisted Human Reproduction Act is before the Supreme Court of Canada. The Government of Canada is firmly convinced that it is constitutional, and that the ruling by the Quebec Court of Appeal is not in keeping with the Supreme Court's case law as to what Parliament can do with respect to its criminal law power. We believe that the full text of all bills of this type, which contain criminal sanctions and prohibitions, must always be reviewed.
The problem is that in making its ruling, the Court of Appeal deciphered and dissected the bill. We think this is the wrong approach, one that has not been supported by the Supreme Court of Canada to date. We feel sure we will win the case before the Supreme Court of Canada, as we usually do, but I do not want to argue that case here.