To Mr. Cooper, I agree that the issue of clear consent was very much front and centre of the Supreme Court's decision; however, I don't think there was any effort to limit it to contemporaneous consent. As long as we're legislators, I think it's certainly open to us to do what other countries have done.
Secondly, on the point of changing your mind, my objective would be to allow that as long as the person is competent—to be able to do that at any time.
Lastly, Quebec's experience is certainly not determinative of what's open to us. I agree with the point that was made. They did decide not to proceed on that in the end. That, of course, doesn't mean it's not open to us. I note that the provincial-territorial task force that studied this in detail spoke to the need of advance requests in their proposals.
I think the time has come. I think Canadians are certainly ready and will be very disappointed if this committee decides to pass it to another time, to another review, when we could do the job now.