It's redirected. It's a comment here more than anything.
It's not like we have a situation of an unreported crime and someone says unreported census crimes are sweeping a wave across this country. The reality is that the minister could have changed this well before; and yes, there is agreement that there is no necessity for jail time. The reality is that it's the current policy of the Prime Minister, the cabinet, and the administration. They have that policy in place; it exists today. We can't pretend it doesn't exist. That could have been changed before any of this debate even took place.
In the testimony I referred to earlier, the minister was quite candid, saying that he had been working on this for months with the officials. So I think it's important.
I don't think I want the impression to be out there as well to Canadians that there are all kinds of census problems and issues related to reporting.
So I'm going to wrap this up. I think we've gone on long enough in this debate. But I think it is important once again to really point to the fact that it is the government's own policy for the fines and penalties. We haven't seen legislation to cease that, and unless we get some type of agreement to take place as to whether this is going to be voluntary or not voluntary, it has to be passed before the census goes out. So it will be interesting to see whether the government is committed to doing that prior to actually printing the census.