Thank you for that answer, because I would like to auger down to get to the meat of the issue.
Until you receive explicit or specific--I will not say instructions, I'll be very tender here--requests to draft legislation there wouldn't be a self-motivator to do just that. Based on your experience with the other departments, it sounds like you're providing legal support. So with this legal support you would be able to identify some of the problems and exigencies involved in being in the enforcement of the law. So wouldn't there be a push back to quite frankly the political arm of governance, saying we need this; this is what we need specifically and here is what we think the answer should be--can you help us out by bringing this legislation forth to Parliament? Does that occur, or because I'm a rookie in government am I supposing things that just don't happen?
The first responsibility of a politician, quite frankly, of a member of Parliament, is the health and safety of the people who bring us here. I want to know, does the legislation have to come from the minister? Does the minister have to say you need to do this, that, and the other thing, or should the minister expect you to say, “Listen, this is what we've been encountering for the past five or ten years. It's a big issue out there. We need some help. Here's what we think you guys should be passing as far as legislation goes.”
Would that be an unreasonable expectation?