As you say, you can't recollect an example that would be a similar situation, but the Supreme Court found years ago that you couldn't prohibit Canadians overseas abroad from voting. There used to be a limit. After five years you couldn't vote. Through a point of equity that we've heard many times now—fair point—the Supreme Court raised the point that it was a violation of the constitutional rights of citizens.
In this situation, either through amendments that we do here or through amendments that could be done in report stage, to protect adoptive parents and adopted children.... I quite like this amendment generally. I'm just trying to get down to...if we were to amend the original substantive connection test, they not be impacted by anything we do with that particular one.
I also understand that if this bill passes here, it will go back to the Senate for review, and potential amendments could be made there on the substantial connection test. I just want to better understand. In other court cases and something similar to this in legislation, can you use the same word but, for different sections of the act, have a different interpretation as a direction given to judges who may consider it and the department in order to try to handle that? That's what I'm trying to get at.