Mr. Speaker, I agree with the overall principle that we should be looking at other dependency models. The face of the Canadian family is changing and is changing quite dramatically.
I cannot buy the argument for the issue of haste in terms of this bill. We have had something in the order of four and a half or five years since the lead decision from the supreme court. To my mind we have wasted those four or five years while we have let courts and activists decide the issues. In my view it is time for the Canadian people to be heard. If there was a fair hearing on the issue of dependency, I think Canadians would speak very vociferously on that issue.