The only comment I would have on that, Mr. Bagnell, is that in testimony before the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on November 9, 2006, Mr. Piragoff, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister for Justice Canada, addressed that issue. He suggested that under, I believe, paragraph 446(1)(a), stray animals indeed are covered under the Criminal Code and are covered under the current law.
So the suggestion that wild or stray animals are not covered is not correct, according to what he and Ms. Klineberg said in testimony that day, as I read it.