I thank you for the work you've been doing on this.
You talked about meeting with different lobbyist groups and the sense of defeatism. I would be more than happy to sit down with you and any groups that would like to talk about my legislation. As I have said here already today, I am open to some technical amendments or amendments that will stick within the spirit of the legislation I have put forward.
I would just address, in my short time, one point that you made on how long it takes for the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to go through this. I think that's part of the problem, or one part of the problem with this. I think we agree on this, that it takes far too long and there is no guarantee of a speedy trial or even necessarily an attempt at a speedy trial or investigation. It is something that really runs in contradiction to what we would do under the Criminal Code of Canada and what we would do under other investigations.
The last point I'd like to make is that these are tremendously serious offences, and I feel they need to be dealt with as such. I'm of the belief that the Criminal Code of Canada is the proper place for that to happen.
With that, I would just like to thank you for your intervention. I look forward to working with you on this.