Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will be happy to provide you many examples, many of which you will be very familiar, of exactly this situation in which the Member was allowed to have that question to the Minister during his general comments. With that, I will continue, Mr. Chair.

I wanted to note that the department did come forward with a communications plan, which we had asked for and were very happy to see. I think there’s a lot of good material in that. The Minister does note in that that he will be working with the Students Against Distracted Driving, and he also has commented that he will be including as his target audience those in communities without cell phone coverage, because it’s well known that many people in those communities do have cell phones and travel frequently to centres which do have coverage. So I appreciate that as well.

I would like to note, though, that in the communications plan there is an intention to promote hands-free alternatives to handheld electronic devices, and I think everybody would agree that the main purpose of this legislation is safety, and the department has provided us with extensive and comprehensive evidence that in fact those alternatives are just as deadly and raise exactly the same safety issues. So I wonder if the Minister would, at a minimum, remove the promotion of hands-free alternatives to the handheld devices and simply stick with trying to avoid distractions to driving as the main focus. Perhaps he would include, based on the evidence that he’s provided us, some notification that in fact there could be concerns that even hands-free devices are a safety issue.