Thank you.
I think the message is an important one and a strong one in terms of preventing gender-based violence. The manner in which Parliament acted in unison in such an expedient manner, with all political parties combining forces together, speaks volumes of the collective motivation on behalf of our constituents and all Canadians.
I'm also quite interested in the process by which you determined the recourse to take. There were some calls for you to invoke the notwithstanding clause. You chose not to do so, and I appreciate that. You were quite surgical and methodical in terms of the solution you came up with.
Can you walk us through the kind of deliberation that you and your department go through in matters of a constitutional nature like these to make a determination as to how to remedy a law based on a decision that's offered to us by the Supreme Court of Canada?