Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have three points. I think Mr. Woodworth has done a very good job of pointing out that there are several criminal law statutes that use the exact or very similar phrasing. I have three more to suggest, which admittedly were not criminal law, and I'm happy to share the specific section references with Ms. Jennings and anyone else who is interested. I have the exact wording here on the BlackBerry.
There are two more important points, and one is simply that my recollection from 25 years of practice in law, which is slightly longer than Mr. Lee has been here in Parliament, is that there is a general rule of statutory interpretation that charging powers can only be in statutes and may not appear in a regulation where they are not specifically referenced in the charging powers in the legislation itself.
Secondly but more importantly, this whole bill is about Internet dissemination of child pornography that leads to sexual exploitation. We all know that Internet technology changes every single day. The people who put this heinous material out there on the Internet are constantly looking for another way to get around every law and every regulation so they can get it to the people who want to use it. We're here today to protect those children, to rescue them, and we don't want to hamstring the police authorities, the proper authorities, in their enforcement of this act because we have to come back to Parliament and pass another law to add something that could simply be added by regulation through this very general wording in the act.