Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I note Mr. Fraser says that “imminent” is not in the court decision. Of course, neither is “reasonably foreseeable”. Both of us are proposing language that is not in the court decision, but which provides some further definition to the terminology in the court decision that is relatively vague, the terminology of “grievous” and “irremediable”.
I will note with respect to the constitutionality of this that Mr. Deltell quite ably pointed out that this aligns with the Quebec experience. In their extension the court did not apply the extension to Quebec, as I understand it, because they said Quebec has its own law in place already. One might reasonably infer that the court viewed the Quebec law as being constitutional.
If the Quebec law is constitutional, then surely it is at least within the range of options available to us to follow their model and include similar language, in this case the word “imminent”.