Mr. Chair, I understand that in certain areas, like under the NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation, there's a provision to have individual complaints be levied. You have private members bills...for example, my colleague Mr. McKay, is bringing in a private member's bill in which individual complaints can be levied, which leads to investigation and reporting about whether or not environmental standards are actually being enforced. That, I understand, we've gone a certain distance on.
From the officials' perspective, and maybe the government's, is Ms. Duncan asserting that the trend in environmental law enforcement is to provide for private prosecutions, that the crown is favourably disposed to private prosecutions, that the Criminal Code permits private prosecutions? Can anyone answer the question, please?
Is this a trend, or is this something Ms. Duncan is trying to help break through? Can anyone help us understand before we vote on this?