It's not my place to be overly dramatic—you don't want overly dramatic health ministers—but I am absolutely convinced that people would have died. I can't say it more plainly than that. I think Parliament was right to act the way it did. Parliament took the health and safety of Canadians into account, and that's what staved off both a national and an international tragedy.
On January 29th, 2008. See this statement in context.