Thank you, Madam Chair. If I could have the indulgence of the House, I'd like to just raise a point that I'd like the Minister to speak on, because I'm not sure exactly if we have a clause that this specifically applies to and I don't want to end up at the end of the bill and find out that I did not deal with the issue. Maybe the Minister and his advisors could tell me exactly what clause I should bring this out to if it should not be in the general comments. The only issue I have is the fact that while this legislation improves the debt collection process in that right now garnishees have to be served I believe every couple of weeks, or every time you want to collect. This one would allow the garnishee to be in effect for up to a year, eliminating the need for the creditors to do the work. But at the same time, in some jurisdictions the garnishee notice has to only be served to either the employer or employee, or I should put it another way. If the garnishee notice is served to the employer, in some jurisdictions it's the same as being served to the employee as well, because the argument is how could you serve notice on an employer without the employee knowing? I'm not explaining this well, but I know the Minister and his advisors know about this because I've raised this as a Regular Member.
For example, in cases like the Maintenance Enforcement Act, the requirements for service of notice is a lot more lenient and the Minister was reluctant in putting that sort of leniency in this legislation, thinking that it should not be that difficult for an employee to be served within 30 days of the employer being served. But I can tell you especially in the Territories where there are, for example, diamond mines where there are workers on different schedules where they could work two weeks in there and two weeks out and before you know it, 30 days is up, four weeks is up. If the garnishee is not served to both the employer and employee, the collection might not be able to take effect. I've had discussions with the Minister on this issue and he's suggested that rather than going through the legislation, but going through changes in the rules or regulations could achieve the same outcome. So I'd like to ask the Minister, before we go into the clause-by-clause review, if he could state, for the record, first of all, I hope he understands my concerns here, and, second of all, that he would, once again, make a commitment to work through the internal ways of adjusting the rules of the court to make that happen? Thank you.