Thank you, Chair.
I want to start with the Barreau du Québec, and particularly with Mr. Ménard, and to thank you very much, sir, for the very helpful testimony that you provided to the Senate-House committee, where you were one of our first witnesses. You were very valuable in explaining the Quebec experience and you've helped a great deal today.
I listened, I confess, in English to your remarks, and I took a few notes that I want to get your comments on.
You spoke about Bill C-14 being too restrictive. You said that the law is not based on the Carter principles, that it can be constitutionally challenged, that it's more restrictive than section 7, and you alluded again to a constitutional challenge. Then you spoke about “reasonably foreseeable” death, the expression in proposed paragraph 241.2(2)(d) that you said should be eliminated from the list of criteria. You indicated that it was too nebulous and that clarity needed to be provided in a definition that was so unclear.
What you've done is given us the same testimony we've heard from Professor Downie, from the east coast, and we'll be hearing on Thursday from the lawyer, Mr. Arvay, who argued the case from the west coast. You've talked to us from French Canada and English Canada.
There seems to be, among a lot of legal experts such as yourself, an acknowledgement that this is simply inconsistent with Carter. I'd like you to elaborate.