Thank you.
I noted the testimony by Mr. O'Connor. I'd like to put the question out to all the witnesses, including Mr. O'Connor. Bill C-469 provides not only opportunities for the public to be engaged in existing law, treaties, conventions, policy, and practice, but also the opportunity to participate in any future legislation.
I just participated in the three-day meeting on the Arctic held by the Canadian Council on International Law. Coming out of that meeting, it's sounding to me like we are going to have a lot of new policy and practice, and possibly legislation, at least to do with the Arctic, and possibly the other oceans. Do the witnesses not think that it's important for the public, particularly those communities who are directly affected in the case of the Arctic, and certainly the Arctic communities, to have the right to participate in these critical decisions?