It was 1984. The McDonald commission report was in 1981, and then it took a while for the government to respond. There was a change of government in 1984, actually. I think they started working under the Trudeau government from 1980 to 1984 and then Mr. Mulroney came in in 1984 and the legislation was finally passed. But it had been in process for a number of years. I was on the justice committee at the time.
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