First of all, I want to thank Mr. Rankin for his intervention and the position of his party on hybridization. I of course support Mr. Cooper's amendment in this case.
I want to say generally that we heard a lot of testimony at committee from those who felt very strongly that hybridization was the wrong way to go. In particular, I want to read into the record that Mr. Christian Leuprecht, who is a professor at the department of political science at Royal Military College, felt that way, as did Ms. Julia Beazley, who is a director of public policy at the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, and Ms. Markita Kaulius, president of Families for Justice.
These are just a few examples of those who felt very strongly that hybridization was going 180° in the wrong direction, and they asked this committee to reconsider on that front.