Thank you.
I just have a few questions for Mr. Comartin, questions of clarification.
One, the law we are looking at basically would grandfather the pregnancies, the marriages and the common law. What you're basically doing is making those exemptions permanent so that in future.... And it sounds like instead of 3,000, it may be a couple of hundred people a year who normally would get into these types of relationships. Now those will be legal. For instance, if someone can hide the fact they're doing an illegal relationship for a year, then they're common law, and they would have a defence. I want to make sure that's what this amendment does; I think that's what it does.
Second, I thought the reason we had moved to Thursday was that you were going to try to tone that down a bit to make it something that would be acceptable to the Bloc. I thought that was the reason we'd put it off until Thursday.
And third, if this doesn't pass, would you be willing to debate just having the marriage as the one permanent exemption and not the other two?