Thank you, Chair.
Just for the record, and in defence of Mr. Rankin who's not here to defend his bill, I will say that our position, and his, is that it should be automatic, but there's some consternation as to whether royal recommendation is required. If there's a certain amount of cost, we'll definitely see what the rulings are in this committee when we present similar amendments to this legislation. I do want that to be clear. Certainly the expungement that's proposed in the bill is definitely a vast improvement, so we'll see, as Mr. Cooper said, how the vote goes in the next few minutes.
Mr. Friedman, thank you for being here. I appreciate it.
I did want to ask about the statistics, the 10,000 out of 250,000 and then the seven out of 9,000 or whatever it is for Bill C-66. Obviously, based on your comments, I think there might be a safe assumption—if there's such a thing to make here. I'm just wondering, do you think the 240,000 others who won't apply would likely not be applying because they fall into some category of marginalization or because of the different exemptions that exist relating to, for example, unpaid fines in the legislation?