Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Justice.
While the Liberal government has been dragging its feet for over a year on the issue of new reproductive technologies, women are selling their eggs to the IVF Canada clinic in Toronto. It is increasingly clear that the commercialization of human genetic material, embryos and foetal tissue is growing in Canada.
Since new reproductive technologies are evolving much more rapidly than the government, can the Minister of Justice admit that several recommendations in the Baird report can be implemented quickly to regulate some embryo research practices and the sale of human gametes or eggs, as is happening at the IVF Canada clinic in Toronto?