Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Merci beaucoup for a very thoughtful presentation, Monsieur Simard.
I offer my apologies: my questions will be in English, because both you and the interpreter would struggle with trying to translate my French.
I have a very practical question to ask you first. It relates to the experience in Ontario, which has had an environmental bill of rights for some time and has put mechanisms in place to actualize that bill so that it's useful to citizens.
One of the implementation measures used in Ontario—it may be in Quebec as well, and you can inform us—is that they have established a registry whereby the Government of Ontario has to post all proposed laws, policies, and regulations. So the citizens have the right to know what is coming forward and what is being proposed, and then they can contact the government and say that they would like to participate in the decisions on that law or policy going forward.
I'm wondering if any kind of mechanism like that has been implemented in Quebec under their bill, and secondly, whether you think it would be useful in helping deliver on the right to be engaged and then on the duty of the government under this bill to engage citizens in the development of any environmental decision-making or any new law or policy.