I said that I had a question for Ms. Besner.
I will get to it shortly. I'm not trying to prolong things at all.
I indeed was quoting Prime Minister Mulroney and not the Milgaard family. He was speaking with a great deal of deference for Mrs. Milgaard, so I don't know how any of this can be offensive. This is what he said: “But in that brief meeting I got a sense of Mrs. Milgaard and her genuineness and her courage.” I don't know what's offensive about that.
Prime Minister Mulroney put the file back to the Minister of Justice, who I believe was Kim Campbell at the time. She reviewed it and found that he had a case, that Milgaard's application was valid, and ordered a new trial. But the Saskatchewan Attorney General decided to simply enter a stay of proceedings. Later on there was DNA evidence and he was exonerated. He actually got a reward of I think $10 million.
Here's my question. Under proposed subsection 697(7) of clause 2 of Bill C-40, how would Mr. Milgaard have been dealt with at that time, when he was in this sort of state of suspension, where the Saskatchewan Attorney General just decided to enter a stay of proceedings—not found guilty, not found innocent, not exonerated, or just no more proceedings against Mr. Milgaard?