Okay, guys. I promise this is my last time, Mr. Chair.
I will endeavour to answer my colleague who, as I said, had three decades on the force himself, so he understands these issues far better than any of us.
The issue is if the employee choice element is provided in secret ballot and, although it's probably unlikely, if it is voted down by the rank and file in the force across the country, Bill C-7 in passing in whatever form would still have the framework if in the future they then opted for it. It would still be there, but the employees would not certify the bargaining agent that would have had certain abilities granted by Bill C-7, so we could still pass this.
It's our position that we should be giving choice to those individual members, the men and women across the country serving on our behalf in sometimes very dangerous and difficult circumstances. That's fully compliant with the Supreme Court decision; in fact, it's a fundamental tenet of it. Bill C-7, all of this stuff, and then the tack-ons on clauses 40 and 42 that we're going to talk about later would still exist.
That will be our final volley, I think, on this issue.