Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you very much to our witnesses here today. We appreciate your coming.
I'm just going to follow up on what my colleague was questioning about. I don't think there was adequate time. I don't know if the panel remembers or not, but I would like to go back to the issues of confidentiality. It's very important to me that we maintain the ability of industries and corporations, or whatever, to be able to compete and to be able to keep trade secrets and those kinds of things and balance that with the public's right to know what's going on in the environment.
As far as confidentiality with respect to the international sharing of information is concerned, we talked about REACH. I don't think that's been adequately thought out or addressed yet. I just wondered if I could get your feedback on that. Do confidentiality issues hinder the transfer of information? How can this problem be addressed?
If we could just revisit those questions, I would be interested in what you have to say.