Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank Mr. Garrison for his comments. He basically said much of what I was going to say, and I have great respect for all the members of this committee, and I do think that we have worked well together. I totally appreciate and respect differences of opinion on the substance of bills, but I don't think this is a matter of this bill having gone through without thoughtful consideration. There has been testimony. We have all of the precious testimony from all of the other committees that have met on this. This is relatively straightforward proposed legislation amending the Criminal Code by adding basically one clause. Another enumerated head, which Mr. Falk himself indicated, is already covered by the current law, so there's no need for it. At least it was my understanding from his questions to the minister that this would be his reason for being against it. While I respect that, I do think it is an important thing to add as an enumerated head, but to suggest for a moment that we have no idea what impact this will have on hate speech in Canada, and we don't know what impact this will have on the freedom of speech...the same could be said for any of the other enumerated heads. I don't think that is in fact a problem at all. I think we have examined this thoroughly in many of the ways that Mr. Garrison has already indicated. I feel very confident that this committee has done its job, and I look forward to clause by clause.
Thank you.