Thank you, Mr. Cooper.
That's a very good question, and obviously a very important one. I think what has changed is the time frame.
I stand by those comments I made. I still believe they are true, and I still believe that the senators who proposed the amendment believe they are true as well.
We have a parliamentary process. We finally, after 150 years, have a Senate that is perhaps fulfilling its mandate for the first time in Canadian history in providing sober second thought, expertise and thoughtful opinions—often expert opinions— both latent in the Senate itself, in the appointments that we've made, but also in the witnesses they hear. Notwithstanding the challenging nature of it, as I had stated in the House and as you've repeated, notwithstanding those challenges and understanding those challenges and the complexity of this, they feel there is a way to move forward and that, in their view, we need to move forward within a time frame.
It was always our intention to look at mental illness carefully in the parliamentary review. We're still going to do that. The only thing that has changed is the time frame. We were always going to have to study this very complex question very carefully, and we will do that.