Well, irrespective of the form of government, the fact of the matter, in my opinion, is.... This witness is a counsel, and I used to be a counsel, and you cannot foreclose a defence argument in the future on any legislation under the Criminal Code, because it's subject to the charter. All sections are like that. If you don't specifically put into legislation protection of the right to conscience, it's going to be brought up anyway.
If you're silent as a Parliament on this issue, there probably won't be enough courtrooms in Canada to handle all the litigation and defences that are going to occur because of this, because you're dealing with thousands and thousands of people involved in the medical profession.