Perhaps I will leave some of my remarks to third reading.
This bill is somewhat different from most. Most bills come through the departmental system. They go through the department, the minister and the departmental consultation process. There is quite a process in the development of a bill.
This one, as the House leader has already mentioned, has come through a somewhat different process. Cabinet still has to approve a bill that goes to the House, but the process to get this bill to this stage is somewhat different than would normally be the case.
Could the hon. member tell me whether there was any consideration given in the drafting of this bill to the recommendations of the Blais commission report, which was the last independent commission report that we had before the House during the last parliament? Was that part of the consideration in the drafting of this bill?