Thank you. What a great act, I have to tell you.
I will take up where I left off, Mr. Chair, with the witnesses, if I may.
If you remember, I was talking about the effects and my surprise, after all my research, in finding out what's taking place in Canada. I also found out, for instance, that long-term exposure to ambient levels of sulphate, which actually takes place, I guess, is linked to cancer and reduces life expectancy and may even be connected to sudden infant death syndrome—which I didn't know. It's shocking. Twenty per cent of people are absent from school and work and social engagements because they have asthma. What a cost to our society! I am very shocked. And what shocks me the most is that no government before this government under our Prime Minister has put forward anything to deal with all of the effects of this. Being a lawyer who has dealt with many claims of negligence, I can say it is nothing short of negligence that this wasn't done before. I am wondering why.
Did your groups not lobby the governments? Did you not talk about the effects of these problems with air capacity and lung capacity, and just the long-term effects? I just don't understand, to be quite frank, why nothing has been done before this government.