Merci beaucoup. The thing to understand about this is that it applies only to the question of what a judge will consider aggravating. The lack of taking reasonable steps is a lack of due diligence, and that alone is required to convict in every case. If you remove the words that Monsieur Bigras has requested, all that's left, in effect, is a failure to take reasonable steps or a lack of due diligence, and that section would no longer have any reason for existence because in every case there must be a lack of due diligence in order to convict. In that sense, it's not an aggravating feature, it's a feature of every conviction.
What the section as it's presently worded intends to do is to say that everybody who is convicted has failed to take due diligence or reasonable steps, but if you have a larger financial means and you still fail to take due diligence or reasonable steps, then that's aggravating. Companies that have greater resources and fail to use them should be treated more harshly, if you will, than companies that do not.
That's why those words are there. Without those words, you could as easily strike that whole subparagraph. I think it makes sense that the offender's ability to take reasonable steps may be considered an aggravating feature, so I'm opposed to the motion.