Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Snow, I'd like to begin with you, but first of all when Madam Boivin asked a question of you she indicated that the private member's bill that I introduced—which borrowed generously from Mr. Leef's and also from the Canadian Bar Association in respect of the consideration of FASD as a recognized disability within the corrections system—was not going to get a chance for debate. That's probably correct, unless there is the political will among any parliamentarian who is in the order of precedence to trade places. That would be the only circumstance under which we would see a debate on Bill C-656 before Parliament, if there were a trade up. Otherwise, we're left with a bill that was introduced, to your great excitement, and then withdrawn.
You indicated in your testimony a couple of things that I want to come back to. One is that the bill introduced by Mr. Leef was a good start and that the perfect should not be allowed to be the enemy of the good. You called upon Minister MacKay to bring the resources of his department to bear to advance this.
Given your call to the minister, and given your identification of the private members' efforts to date as a good start, what improvements would you recommend on the initiatives that have been taken to date? If you had Minister MacKay's ear, and you were to say to him, “This is what you need to do to get as close as possible to perfect”, what recommendations would you have?