I'm going to try to be brief again. I just want to reiterate what my colleague already said, that there are a couple of problems we have here, and for whatever reason, we've concentrated on this Latin word. But there's another problem, and that is that the people who are going to be using these sections typically are police officers, who don't study Latin, who cannot tell you very quickly what mens rea and modus operandi are, because depending on what province or what territory they're in, they use different wording. So there was a suggestion by Mr. MacKenzie that further study and consultation would have to be required so that provincial and territorial partners, as well as the police community, determine precisely what is meant by that term.
To answer Mr. Holland's question very quickly, hopefully as the parliamentary secretary for official languages I have some input on this. The two official languages, sir, are French and English. The advisors have told us that it's imperative that the statute itself be in either French or English. That eliminates all other—and we're talking about the statute itself. It may appear in the index. It may appear in any kind of document thereafter. But I heard clearly that it must be French or English only. If we see there are two problems, we may not be able to decide this here. We'll be going around in circles. Perhaps we ought to defer this so they can do a little more work, and then we can move on to other clauses so that we can get through this.