Perhaps I will just follow up on the clerk's comments, although these are just two parts. It is a very important bill and we want to make sure we get it right. The last thing you need is for a perception, whether erroneous or not, that groups who feel that they're directly affected by this have been excluded from the opportunity to appear and give their point of view. It does a disservice. Not every group is like the bar association, which follows carefully everything that goes on in parliamentary committees. There are groups out there that we have to be proactive with and to reach out to make sure we don't antagonize unnecessarily.
On November 20th, 2007. See this statement in context.