Madam Speaker, the bill will have a tremendous impact. I should thank publicly Dorit Girash of the Jazzpurr Society for Animal Protection who was one of the leaders when we had our public hearings and debates. At first there was a lot of debate and controversy over what we should do next. What we found was an organization that, as well as being a TLC organization, would be willing to come forward and ensure that there would be proper supports from the community to get this to the next level, not only in terms of volunteering time, energy and money, but also to ensure that the government of the day would support the municipality on this policy change.
I think that what we are going to see from Canadians is a general embracing of this and a principled ownership issue that is going to be very important as animals are treated as more than just property.