Greg Fleming

But, you know, this might be helpful for future related policy and legislative discussions to this subject.

Or we can actually make a recommendation with this current report around fireworks.

That's what we've done.

That's probably the best part of the petitions committee because, again, we run quite a collegial and consensus-driven approach.

So often we'll even get the petitioner and those who are opposing it or putting it out to all sit at the table together and we'll have a really good discussion.

And then at the end of that, we get the clerks to write the report up and then back, as I mentioned at the beginning of our conversation.

So we would go through that whole process, yes, several times.

Several hundred times in the term of Parliament.

And the other thing that was cool about the Animate petition is that in addition to all the human signatures, I think they had something like 90,000 paw prints that also signed it.

It's a lot of stamping, eh?

90,000 paw prints, yeah.

No.

We definitely discussed it, but I was going to say their voice, their barks and neighing were definitely heard in the committee.

It wouldn't surprise me if one day fireworks are gone completely for the simple fact that they're not as impressive as what we can do with laser lights and that kind of thing and drones.

But I don't think we're there yet.

At the moment, you know, fireworks are still loved by most people and, you know, and something pretty special and, you know, potentially unique.

And so for that reason, we've said, you know, why bowlmans go ahead with licensed public displays that, you know, have a notified time so that, you know,

animal owners nearby can make preparations and that sort of thing.

The big thing is that people can plan for it.