Part of what we did around this being proposed, because it was considered before this, was to do an actual literature review of other examples. I think the greatest indictment of our system has been the ineffectiveness to this point. There have been moments of effectiveness over the last year, but in the midst of that increased awareness and view of the environment, we lost our Commissioner of the Environment, with no real understanding as to why.
So at the time, when it was finally starting to get attention for various factors, I think a change was precipitated. I don't think the two issues can be fully separated at all, and I don't think they should be. What particularly happened in this case does have some bearing on my vote, certainly, and I would hope it would for other committee members as well.
It's well taken that this goes back to Parliament and that the government has to respond to the committee's will, if it passes and is expressed. But I would say to the government members, and to those others making decisions when this comes to the House, that this is a time when it is most critical for Canada to have a voice that is given the credibility and the weight that is needed for this issue, because we are desperately off course.
And that voice has often been in the wilderness, the voice that Ms. Gélinas and her predecessors before her raised.