Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Firth, I'd like to thank you very much for your thoughtful presentation and your very thoughtful efforts at response. I understand that you're not a lawyer and sometimes it's tough to try to come up with a legal opinion to a rather legalistic bill. I think you've done an admirable attempt at that, so thank you for your efforts.
I really appreciated the approach that your union has taken in this brief. It's much more sort of a broad-based holistic approach. And I really appreciated the efforts that both your union and other union reps in the environment committee of the CLC have taken to give their feedback on the bill. I very much appreciate it.
I understand that there's a particular interest in this bill by your union members in having stronger commitments by the Government of Canada to the precautionary principle. I'm wondering if you'd like to elaborate a bit more on that aspect of the bill.