No, there's nothing stopping them, or there's nothing stopping a government actually responding to Law Commission reports that have come out. I know that Mr. Bagnell talked very highly about the aboriginal report. I don't recall what response the government made in respect of what he considers a very important report. I'm just wondering whether maybe the committee could look at what the government actually did during the time that Mr. Bagnell was in government. It's very easy now to say, well, it was such an important, fundamental report, and yet he did nothing. Who actually betrayed the aboriginal people? Who actually betrayed the aboriginal people, if he fundamentally believed that and did nothing? That bothers me.
Your point is well taken. A group of university professors can come forward here and say, look, we would like to submit a paper on a particular issue, whether it's aboriginal rights or securities legislation or privacy. They're already funded by taxpayers in one way or another. They are very independent. If you've ever been involved in collective bargaining situations with university professors, you'll understand exactly how independent and fundamental that is to our entire university system. To suggest that simply because one vehicle is not being funded by the government, the entire law system breaks down because we don't have access to independent legal advice.... We, as the Government of Canada, have access to the same independent legal advice as the Law Commission of Canada did.