In closing, Mr. Chair, I want to add again that I have referenced a number of times the North American agreement on environmental cooperation under the NAFTA agreement. Article 6 provides that Canada commits that it will provide access to remedies in environmental cases. That is why this provision and a number of the other provisions are added in--to implement in domestic law the commitments made by Canada under that agreement.
Again, this provision is added to deal with the issue of standing. It's simply to allow concerned Canadians to come forward with cases where they have evidence that there has been a contravention of a federal environmental law, or that there is likely to be. Of course, they would have to make that prima facie case to the court before they could proceed, at any rate.