—but there were consultations that took place before the bill was ever introduced, I guess you would say at the ministerial level, and we did consultations in a variety of different communities. Non-profit organizations in those communities came to be heard at those meetings, so it was a very different type of consultation process. And at that point the bill wasn't written yet; it was more, “If we were going to do this or that, which would you prefer?”
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