Well, I would certainly be pleased to see the whole bill withdrawn. I can't deny that. I just don't think the mandatory detention provisions in Bill C-31 can be saved. I don't think they can be brought into compliance with the Constitution or with international law, and I think the provisions for designating a foreign national go hand in hand with those mandatory detention provisions.
On the west coast, when the boats arrived, the refugee lawyers group in Vancouver really had problems staffing detention reviews. The Department of Justice couldn't deliver detention reviews, although we ran them until midnight every night. So it might make sense, and hence I have suggested in the case of mass arrivals, that in order to allow any government to remain in compliance with its own law, a different timeframe—going to 20 days, 25 days, 30 days—for detention reviews for mass arrivals is an amendment that would allow the government not so frequently to be in breach of the law, as it has been in the case of recent boat arrivals.
But certainly with regard to mandatory detention, I think these provisions should be withdrawn entirely.