Thank you.
With regard to the amendments, I appreciate Mr. Jean's comment. However, an amendment to this bill to reflect what we heard from witness testimony would have been ruled out of order by our distinguished chair because it would have required the government to spend money.
I can assure you that any of the amendments I would have proposed would have been determined as outside the scope of the bill. Those amendments would have included things like funding for legal aid, funding for additional housing on reserve, funding for counselling, funding for addictions treatment, funding for developing alternative dispute resolutions, and funding for the first nations in order to develop their own matrimonial real property codes.
There were a number of amendments that I would have been pleased...but I'm sure the government would have opposed every single one of them.