Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, thank you to you and your officials for being here this morning.
I'd just like to respond to my friend, Madam Boivin.
We're all lawyers. There are many lawyers here. There are many lawyers who have reviewed this legislation and the Bedford decision. I certainly have. I spoke about it in the House of Commons. I think that Bill C-36 very clearly responds to the Bedford decision and is supportable.
In terms of the decision, it seems to me that the NDP don't want to take a position. They want to throw it back to the Supreme Court and hide behind that. They seem to want allow the Supreme Court to take the jurisdiction of Parliament. We had a decision; it's pretty clear. From any group of lawyers that you will ask an opinion of you'll get slightly different variations, but this seems to fit directly with the Bedford decision. I find it curious that my friends in the opposition are afraid to take a stand on how they think prostitution should be dealt within Canada and want to throw it back to the Supreme Court to hear what the Supreme Court has to say about it.