My role with environment legal services is to work closely and assist and advise the enforcement branch. That's the majority of my practice.
In the administrative monetary penalty scheme that is coming forward, the due diligence defence is not a defence that will avoid a violation from being issued. In that sense it would be considered an absolute liability scheme.
The reason for that is so there will be efficiency in using this tool to avoid the prosecutions, which take a fair amount of time and resources on both sides.