I want to tell you that it was passed through this committee with gusto, even though at that time it was an opposition majority committee, and that it indeed gave greater effective opportunities for the enforcement of environmental legislation. But regrettably, it was not made to apply to the Species at Risk Act because the environment committee was studying the Species at Risk Act at that time, and no one wanted to impose on that study.
I'm wondering if I might convince you at the very least that it would be appropriate to amend the Species at Risk Act to bring its enforcement provisions up-to-date and to put them on a par with that environmental enforcement legislation that was made to apply to virtually every other environmental act in Canada, except the Species at Risk Act. Could I persuade you that we ought to immediately act to amend the Species at Risk Act in this regard?