Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Congratulations to all of you who have been supportive of this. This is an excellent piece of legislation. In my comments when this was before the House with our colleague Mr. Oliphant, I said something like this is probably going to get more difficult to get passed with the proliferation of information and the expansion of technology, and so this is why I think it is so important that a piece of legislation like this comes forward.
As well, I agree with what our colleague from the House had to say with respect to our ability to create offences. I mean, this is something that the Parliament of Canada can do. It can take activity and, if we deem it to be criminal activity or offensive activity, that's within the jurisdiction of Parliament. I'll be interested to hear Peter Hogg, who I believe is coming before us here, but that being said, I think it's completely consistent.
Senator Cowan, congratulations again on bringing this forward. I think it's very important. You did make one comment that sort of alarmed me a little bit. You said that the government may want to not have this as part of the Criminal Code or they may want to have amendments on that. I wonder if you could expand on that, or perhaps it might be better directed towards monsieur Oliphant. He might be in a better position to know this, but what are you hearing with respect to this bill?