Mr. Speaker, I feel like I am back in law school. The hon. member is raising a fair point. Legislatures make law; judges
interpret law. When there is a vacuum, when the legislature has not clearly set out society's intention, judges can wander from that.
Precedents are built on precedents and so we have to be vigilant as legislators to ensure that the law is actually delivering what we want the law to deliver in court rooms and in our lives as they are regulated by legislation.
There is tremendous ongoing debate about what is often called judge made law. A broader debate would be better held at another time. This is a case where judicial interpretation of the law has gone so far afield that there has been public outcry. We have lost the balance between private rights and public rights and between the rights of complainants and accused.