Because I had seven aboriginal people working with me on this during its development, and they were in the lead in opposing the other bills that came down through the Department of Justice, because they didn't know where they were going, whether it was going to affect their hunting, fishing, and treaty rights, and there was no way of finding out.
There were things that showed up in those bills that used words like creating a new offence of killing an animal in a brutal manner, and there was no definition of what constitutes “brutal”. What constitutes “brutal” to some starlet sitting on the ice counting little white seals is quite different from what would be brutal to a fisherman or a harvester of wildlife.
I can say without any question—and we could bring people to give evidence—that the aboriginal community is comfortable with this bill, and that's one of the reasons I stuck to my knitting and said, we have a bill, they've lived with it all their lives, and therefore it's not a problem for them. What they need to know is where they're going, and they accept the level of the penalties.