Excuse me for interrupting, Minister, but I guess one point that I wanted your comments or observations on had to do with the speed of this.
I know, Marlene, I'm out of a job now; this is my own minister.
As everyone here knows, just because it passes committee, goes into the House, and passes the House, that doesn't mean it's going to be law. We have to go through the other place, the other house, the Senate. We saw with Bill C-2--that was not dealt with by this committee but by a special legislative committee--how long it took, and we're still not finished that process. The Senate took an extraordinarily long time, in my view, to bring it back to the House, with a lot of amendments. I would hate to think that this bill would be stalled in the Senate and then not be in effect before the next federal election.
I'd just like your comments on that.