Thank you. The private member's bill that Mr. O'Reilly is referring to is Bill S-201, and it was federal legislation. It had several components, but the two that are of most concern here are: the first relied upon the criminal law power to add a prohibition for using genetic tests without the express permission of the person and for asking for genetic tests in any capacity with very serious fines, I believe in the order of $1 million.

The second component of the bill was to add genetic characteristics to a number of federal statutes as a prohibited ground to the Canadian Human Rights Code, and also to deal in the Canadian Labour Code.

The first part of the bill that created the criminal law prohibitions relating to genetic testing was taken before a court in Quebec, and several months ago, the Quebec Court of Appeal actually ruled that it's unconstitutional because it is using the criminal law power to intrude into an area of provincial jurisdiction which has authority over insurance. I understand that that decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal has been appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, and I believe that the hearing is scheduled for either October 10^th or 11^th of this year. Thank you.