Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'd like to say perhaps a few things. In response to Ms. Neville's comments about in through the back door what's not through the front door, I have a more general observation. I feel that in this committee that's solely what we've been looking at, instead of many of the very incredibly important areas that we could be looking at. To date, we have been doing front door and back door types of things, instead of looking at the aboriginal women who are dying, technology, and media. I truly would suggest that this is something we need to think about in the future in terms of how we look at what we're going to do in this committee.
My understanding is that there was a comprehensive consultation process--and we're not into debating this specific bill--and that within this bill there are very solid mechanisms for community-level decision-making about how they would actually implement it. So what we would be doing is creating immediate protection for women and then respecting the ability of communities to come up with their own systems. I would go back to really preferring to support the original motion.
Thank you.