Industry committee  Excuse me. I'm not getting any interpretation through here, or just very faintly. Sorry about that.

Industry committee  Okay. It's better now.

Industry committee  I'm sorry, but I'm just not getting anything coming through here that I can make sense of. Perhaps when we come back.... Or someone else can answer the question, or phrase it for me. That would be helpful.

Industry committee  Go ahead again. Yes, that's perfect. I'm sorry, Mr. Bouchard. Would you please restate that?

Industry committee  It's hard to say. I do think that anything we can do to make companies responsible, with a longer-term view, for the obligations they've entered into would be a plus. I would also point out that on this list of who gets what when, the federal and provincial governments are at th

Industry committee  Thank you. I'll try to make my remarks cool, not set off any fires.

Industry committee  I was asked to comment on this, and I looked at some of the issues and some of the areas. I think the areas I can speak to are what I will call the macro effects, for lack of a better term. Is this going to shake the Canadian economy to its roots and lead to a doubling of the num