Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to all the participants.
I'd like to address some of the broader questions that are coming into play here. It's a very broad act. It purports to be about rights for individuals, but to access it, there needs to be an entity like Ecojustice and so on in place, I would imagine. This is not something that.... The average person would need assistance with in terms of accessing the remedies under this act--perhaps.
Here's what I would like an opinion about. Does an act that is this broad, with these remedies that I guess are filling gaps--or at least overcoming gaps, as I've heard them described--help simplify the regime we have? In terms of trying to make this work, how much difficulty will we be in?
We heard a little bit from the marine folks on this front, but you've had an occasion to think about this. I know that this has been in discussion for many years, and I know there have been earlier efforts or at least discussions about it, so I'm wondering if you could address that notion that we're going broad with this act and what that will do to the existing regime of protections that we have in place. That's an open question. I'm just hoping that somebody can give us some of the considered thinking that's gone on behind this.