What they would be able to get with Bill C-300 is that a formal investigation is under way, under Canadian legislation, that could result in the lifting of all government support for this company. Guess what gets the publicity? The allegation gets the publicity—Canadian mining companies or Canadian petroleum companies accused of human rights or environmental abuses. The finding, some weeks or months down the road, that these were frivolous or that the allegations were put up by commercial competitors gets very little publicity, as you know, as a result, and the damage is done in the meantime. We need to find mechanisms that, yes, move ahead from where we are today in terms of trying to ensure that we all follow the highest possible standards, but do so with the minimum of damage to the companies involved.
The other element of your question was whether or not Mr. McKay's bill goes above the standard that the consensus agreed upon and the government falls below that. I guess my answer would be that if we believe that Mr. McKay's bill may be damaging to the Canadian interest, it may be damaging to the host countries as well. Let's hold off from doing things that we think could be damaging.
If the government's approach is found to be deficient once we've had experience with it, by all means let's make improvements to it; let's bring it up to whatever standard we feel is appropriate at that time, but based on concrete experience. The key issue for me, and I'm sure for you as well, is to ensure that we move carefully in an area like this, that we improve the standards of everybody involved, and that we avoid reckless or frivolous damage to the reputations and the welfare of everybody involved.