I will respond to that, and I will redirect you to the letter sent to the committee by the minister. It is Minister Cannon's wish that the committee work on this legislation, so it's not our decision. There are a variety of ways we can look at various pieces of legislation, and within the department I can say we've touched on all of them. We can use a panel. The minister can name a panel, as he did for the Railway Safety Act; the panel would go around the country and come back with a report with a number of recommendations on legislative changes. Or we can do it ourselves, as we did for the Aeronautics Act, for instance. We can go around the country and consult, assemble a number of recommendations, and then propose legislation. Or the minister can ask this committee to review it, which he has done.
On February 28th, 2008. See this statement in context.