Madam Chair, I will concede the point, but I reserve the right to talk about the Walchuk case when we do get to clause 3.
However, I do have another question for Julie Besner or Shannon Davis-Ermuth.
In preparing for this study, I read up quite a bit about the David and Joyce Milgaard case. I'm not going to belabour it, because I'm assuming that everybody is at least somewhat familiar with this case.
Mr. Milgaard served 23 years for a crime that he didn't commit. This is one of the reasons that we've introduced Bill C-40. It's because the process for seeking justice when one feels that they've been wrongfully convicted is very awkward under the criminal conviction review group process currently in the Criminal Code. Rightly, we are trying to amend that.
This is the way that it finally got to the attention of the minister of justice, who by the way was Kim Campbell at that time.
Credit goes to Joyce Milgaard's persistence, Joyce was the mother. One day in September 1991, she held a vigil in front of the hotel in Manitoba where Prime Minister Mulroney was scheduled to speak. She did not actually expect to speak to the Prime Minister, but he walked over to her to hear what she had to say. Years later, in an interview with the Winnipeg Free Press, the Prime Minister had this to say. I think it is a great quote:
There was something so forlorn...about a woman standing alone on a very cold evening on behalf of her son. But in that brief meeting I got a sense of Mrs. Milgaard and her genuineness and her courage. We all have mothers, but even the most devoted and loving mothers could not continue to crusade for 22 years if there was any doubt in her mind. So I went back to Ottawa I had a much closer look at it.