Yes, and that's another very good question. Thank you.
When I first started working on Bill C-489 about two years ago, shortly after meeting one of the families, I came up with the distance of five kilometres. As we started drafting the bill, I found that was much too large in a normal circumstance, so it was scaled back to two kilometres. Then, as you point out, in some smaller communities two kilometres may be way too restrictive and totally impractical.
I've seen a suggested amendment to the bill that the committee will be dealing with, which is that it be two kilometres or a distance deemed appropriate by the courts. It gives the courts the discretion. They look at it. In some cases five kilometres may be deemed more appropriate by the court, or it may be much less, depending on the size of the community. Each situation is unique. The courts would maintain their discretion.