—I don't want to say catastrophic change, but fairly big change, and a change whose ramifications I'm not sure everybody understands, the ramifications of putting these words....
They're not just words; in law they mean something. We have cases that go to the Supreme Court of Canada on placement of a comma. Changing from our “may” to “shall”—what we have to do—is a big leap. It's rather like when you introduce a mongoose to a strange area: you never know what it's going to do, but it usually takes over. We have the same problem here. I don't think anybody around this table or anybody who testifies can really tell us what's going to happen, but I can tell you it's not going to be good.