Thank you for that comment.
Mr. Marston, in your comments, in effect, you were suggesting that this issue, if I may say, crosses party lines, that it's not a matter of debating torture. All of us in this room—all of us—oppose torture. No one favours torture.
In the past three or four years, I've consulted with MPs--for instance, Francine Lalonde. I was here three years ago at a press conference. The Bloc had put forward a private member's bill. That bill went nowhere.
About a year and a half ago, I consulted with Peter Julian. I came into Ottawa for the day and spent time in his office, with a number of other people, on amendments to the State Immunity Act. There's no doubt that the NDP supported that.
When he was my MP, the Honourable John Godfrey entertained me in his office in Toronto. I prepared a brief for him. He gave me his wholehearted support, and we worked together to try to get it on the agenda. They were in government at that time.
Mr. Oliphant, I believe you are the Don Valley West representative. You're my MP. Mr. Oliphant, I'm going to be knocking on your door for the same kind of support that Mr. Godfrey gave to me personally on that issue.
This issue crosses party lines. I'm just a simple lawyer from Toronto. I don't know how the politics work, but it seems to me that the simple solution—and I may sound silly—is that maybe five of you or four of you from the main party should go off and have coffee somewhere and decide together that you're going to put this on the agenda, have the issue studied, compare the bill, and get it through. It crosses party lines. And you know what? It doesn't cost any money to do it. There's no cost. The impact on the human rights of Canadians is huge, at very little cost on a cross-party issue.