Thank you.
In any event, I know we've received written submissions, and I rather suspect that, if we asked them, those who have provided written submissions would be more than happy to come and state their views, but that opportunity has been denied.
I'm just pointing out that clause 12 seems to want to give an opportunity for effective, informed, and timely public participation in decision-making in all other respects except regarding the passage of this bill.
I want to say also that we don't know whether this clause may lead to an obligation for the government to fund groups that want to participate in this process, just as that obligation has grown up elsewhere in relation to other legal mechanisms for public participation. We don't even know, for example, if the government will end up funding views of groups--