Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'm going give the bulk of my time to my colleague, Mr. Hiebert, but I did want to say a couple of things.
First off, I agree with you, Mr. Borovoy, about the large portion of good work that the Canadian Human Rights Commission does. I think the commission is suffering from something that.... There's a phrase in U.S. jurisprudence: that the United States justice system doesn't only have to be just but has to appear just. I think there's an issue there of credibility now, publicly, that they're going to have to deal with. One witness mentioned the things in the media, and I understand that; we deal with the media all the time, trying to straighten out stories.
One of the things you mentioned about the breadth and scope of section 13 I think is eluding the commission as well. I say that in the sense that the Canadian Human Rights Act was not meant to be punitive but remedial in nature, because it would damage anybody's reputation beyond their capability to recover by simply going to a tribunal. Anyone who has a complaint lodged against him, which is easy to have happen because of the breadth of it, has to seek legal counsel, because they would be terrified of going before a tribunal that would be public and then they would be named as a person who would be, of course, guilty of hate speech.
That's one of the main concerns I have around the issue. You can comment on that, but I want to leave the questioning to my colleague, Mr. Hiebert.