Madam Speaker, it is simply two different situations.
We have a law that was sufficient all the way up until last year when the Supreme Court decided that it was not. That was the premise at the start of my conversation.
The following three points were made, that if the government is going to proceed without going through the notwithstanding clause process, then we would go through the rest.
I will just inform the member across the way that on a plane ride home from Ottawa to Vancouver, I sat next to a Supreme Court justice of the appellate court. I asked how we could have a check on them. Canadians have a check on us through elections and feedback letters. He said that there is a mechanism to check on them, and it is called the notwithstanding clause.
Clearly that is our way to check the courts, and to have our say in that body. We need to seriously consider it in this matter.