I always hesitate to speak for others, but my sense would be that we provided to the Senate, as we will provide to your committee, strong evidence from eminent constitutional scholars that this is a legitimate exercise of the federal power. I think the responses from the provinces, both to my enquiries and from the committee, indicated that the provinces are not concerned either from a jurisdictional or a policy point of view. They're looking to examine their own codes and legislation to make it complementary, but they're not saying, “Hold on, we need to act first.” They're waiting for federal action, in my view, and I think that's my responsibility.
On November 15th, 2016. See this statement in context.