I realized in retrospect. And as the sole person drafting an act, there are many challenges. The decision by the drafter I was working with was to choose the language that we had. In other similar bills, they took different approaches in environmental bills of rights in other jurisdictions, but quite often what they did was use the language “every person resident in Canada”. Now, that would have been very wordy, so I think actually Monsieur Bigras has come up with the perfect solution, that it just simply makes it clear that wherever there is reference to “resident”, it is a person as he has defined. So I'll be supporting the amendment, and I appreciate his making it.
On February 15th, 2011. See this statement in context.