I am just trying to get a few things straight, further to some comments made by my colleague Robert Goguen. He mentioned that you had testified on other bills, including Bill C-59 and
Bill C-475. You were quoted as saying:
I want to be clear that, as we stated before the house committee, we do not support this bill. We do [not] support issues to protect the rights of victims and to protect victims generally. We feel that...many more initiatives could be undertaken rather than, that after the fact, undertaking a bill of this sort.
I went into the answers—well, not me but our brilliant researcher here. I'd like you to remove the impression—maybe it was Mr. Goguen who was right and not Hansard, but according to Hansard, what you did say was:
I want to be clear that, as we stated before the house committee, we do not support this bill. We do support issues to protect the rights of victims and to protect victims generally. We feel that if that was the objective, many more initiatives could be undertaken rather than, after the fact, undertaking a bill of this sort.
Do you not support victims, Madam Pate?