I think it would be great to have such an advisory committee. I'm sure the regulations will come out fine after PHAC goes through them and consults with people. It's just that there's an issue, especially among the more vocal members of my society, that they do not like being asked to accept on faith an act that has definitions that go one way, with the promise that the regulations will make those definitions less draconian in the future. We don't know what's going to happen in the future that might make the regulations not come out the way they're being promised in these preliminary documents, in which case we would be faced with severe problems, as Dr. Descoteaux has outlined, in terms of costs and people leaving the field.
So accepting something on faith is not something that everybody is willing to do.