Thank you to all of the witnesses for your testimony this morning.
I'll ask my first question to Mr. Elliott.
In your presentation you noted, of course, that equality of marriage was achieved in Canada, and you mentioned that the court challenges program played an important role in that achievement. I was wondering if you might elaborate on that. The legislation on equality of marriage was passed in Parliament in 2005. It was a free vote. It had the support of members in all of the major political parties. It wasn't as a result, for example, of a Supreme Court decision saying to Parliament, you must do something. Parliament, in a lot of ways, was out before the courts on equality of marriage.