Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I recognize it's a fairly short piece of legislation that we're dealing with here, but it's an important piece of legislation. Just to follow up on some of the things my colleagues have been saying earlier on, I think this is kind of -- forgive me for saying this -- a biased piece of legislation, or amendments, that are being made here.

There's a little story that goes something like this. A boyfriend says to his girlfriend, we can live together so in case we make a mistake we won't have to get a divorce. And the girlfriend says, well, what about the little mistake? Who looks after him? And this is what we're talking about. We're talking about the protection of the innocent victims of relationships that go wrong. While it's true that we must recognize a certain long-time commitment with marriage, there are times when it happens that people do cohabit and they choose to part later on, but it's been my experience when I was in social work that it was always the woman who was stuck with the children.

What we're looking at here are limitations, that there's still no clear line on -- at least I'm not clear on it -- when does this clock start ticking, this two-year limitation? The responsibilities that people have go beyond a certain time frame, a month or two months or whatever, two years in this case. That's never been clearly defined, and I guess the answer to that has been to let the courts decide that. Well, that's true. Perhaps we can do that, but there are times when a person may not be aware of their legal rights and may not choose to pursue something because either they don't know about it or they have a certain amount of pride that prevents them from pursuing something like this on a legal basis or in such situations where a person may skip out of the country or the province and their whereabouts are unknown. I would like to try to ask that question to the Minister, to try to deal with that issue of if the rights of an individual or the awareness of the legal rights of an individual are not that clear, and a person can perhaps pinpoint it when they got on the airplane, the boat or the car as to when that relationship ended. But if there's no legal action or there's no way of finding out where an individual is to commence action, is this being covered somewhere in case a person skips?