Madam Speaker, the member is half right. At the end of the day, the Carter decision from the Supreme Court of Canada was light in the Conservative mandate. I will give the member that much.
Having said that, there was absolutely no indication or approach to try to deal with the issue. At the time, Stephen Harper believed that maybe they would be able to deal with it, maybe they would not be able to deal with it. It was not a priority for the Conservative government.
Yes, the member might not have been an elected member of Parliament at the time, but that does not take away from his involvement with Stephen Harper before he was an elected member of Parliament.