I should qualify that the four years contributed to it by the fact that you had an election in between things. Bill C-66 was at third reading in the Senate when the election was called, so we had to do the same thing all over again with Bill C-19. It was really a two-year process.
The two years were divided between about six to seven months--first, a couple of months when I canvassed the parties to try to get some agreement without going through a full-fledged task force, and then canvassed the parties about the kind of process they would like to follow. I took about three or four months for that, and then we had a six- to seven-month task force, followed by a consultation period of another four months, and then the parliamentary process. We put that into two years. It was a comprehensive bill, however. With smaller issues you could cut that probably, but I would suggest 18 months is the minimum for a really serious legislative process.