Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has just mentioned the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I know how attached he is to it because I was here in the years when he made the case for it in the House of Commons.
Given the appropriate attachment of the government to the charter and given the controversy about whether or not the bill actually meets the test of the charter, would the government consider a referral to the supreme court of the more controversial elements of the bill so that the court might consider it simultaneously? We could still do this in the urgent way that the government considers necessary.