First of all, I want to thank you for drawing attention to Mr. Housefather's work on this particular issue. He's been a champion for his community and for the Jewish community across Canada, and I want to say “thank you” with him present in the room.
With respect to your bill, I don't want to prejudge what outcome would result, but the reason I wasn't comfortable including it in the previous piece of legislation is that we hadn't done the same policy work on the issue that you've just raised that we did on the measures that were included in the bill.
To the extent that this committee or other committees wish to identify the best path forward, I think that would be a useful exercise, but I don't want to suggest that there's a preordained outcome in terms of a given issue in advance of that policy work being done.