Mr. Chair, I can appreciate Mr. Easter making that comment, but I cannot appreciate the questioning of the witness casting him in a disparaging way. As a matter of fact, I don't think we should cast any witness, or anyone here to give us advice, in a disparaging way, just as I would never impugn or put into question an academic's opinion based on his or her research. I think it's important for this committee to make sure that....
We have witnesses who have different opinions, and we have witnesses who can look at other countries and come away with differences of opinion as to their ability or inability to do certain things. Canada is a separate, independent, and sovereign country. We do adapt certain things from other countries, but we don't necessarily have to emulate them or have what they have. I suspect that if we had certain agencies, such as they do south of the border, the people across the way would be—well, except for Randall—pulling their hair out.