We could study the subject matter. Because the subject matter deals with the mother and the child--because it's gender-related--we could study it.
The flip side of the coin is that because we're dealing with the Criminal Code, the way this motion is worded, we can't do much about it. If we study the impact, then perhaps we have a way around it.
Ms. Mathyssen, you received some advice, and perhaps you can give us in writing what that advice was. Perhaps the clerk can then take that and see where she can go with it. We really have to work within the technical parameters of our statutes. Our statute, which relates to the department and which is the statute governing the status of women, is a statute of the Department of Canadian Heritage, not the Department of Justice.
Madame Demers.