I am concerned. I know you, and I know you clearly care about victims' rights. I might ask you what happened to our non-renewed Mr. Sullivan. Other than the fact that he wasn't fluently bilingual and may have been a few issues with that, he handled himself quite well. Why is he not being renewed, when do you think there will be a replacement, and will you ask opposition members—and government members, for that matter—for some input on that? That's a short snapper.
The other question I have is about the 14-, 15-, and 16-year-old limits of onus that I went on at you about in the first round. I can clearly understand Monsieur Ménard's point. In Quebec they have a highly developed system of treating youth justice issues, and I understand their AG might have asked for this. Point-blank, Minister, did any other attorney general in any other province ask for this varying standard? If it is giving some leeway to Quebec, I think we're all grown up around this table and we understand, but I would like to know if there are others.
On the issue of consultations, my BlackBerry must not have been working that day, but I don't remember getting an invitation to one in Moncton. I understand those were very well attended and I understand that much of the input, including that from prosecutors, was laudatory towards how the YCJA is working. I think when you bring amendments like this and you have the statements made around the table that have been made, sometimes it results in a loss of confidence in the system. I'm looking for you, Minister, to say, “Well, the YCJA does work in great measure, but we're fine-tuning it”.
My question goes to the consultations and the results of those consultations, the without-prejudice aspects of them. Can they be shared at least in an in camera way with members of the justice committee, or on a larger scale? Perhaps the public would like to know about the public consultation. It seems ironic that you'd have public stakeholder consultation and not publish the results thereof for everyone to see verbatim. It might shorten our journey here to find out what people are saying.