In the more detailed submission that we sent to the predecessor of this committee, we actually addressed that issue. I think you were all given a copy.
The point we made was that we strongly relied on the assurances by government lawyers, which I believe have been given to this group or the predecessor group and which we have also heard, that it would not be the case. In our submission on November 25, we said that before the changes that CCPA had suggested be made—and those were what I was talking about—it would be important for this legal opinion to be confirmed.
In putting forward our proposals, CCPA would not want to risk the constitutional authority of the federal government to appropriately regulate. I think that's an absolutely critical question. One would not want to gut the federal environmental authority by making that change.
My understanding is that federal lawyers have concluded it's not a problem, but I think that needs to be confirmed. We have certainly not spent the money in hiring an expensive law firm to come up with that, but it's our understanding of the federal legal opinion. Presumably, it's something that this committee will ask Environment Canada and Health Canada lawyers about.