Thank you, Madam Chair. I really appreciate the interesting discussion today. It's probably one of the first times I felt like I was hearing a lot of things in this committee that made more sense, and the discussion has been excellent. I really appreciate the witnesses.
Peter, there are some things you said that resonated with me a little bit. You talked about a lot of local decision-making. I can remember a long time ago, as a mayor, when people would propose certain things I said, “Is there community buy-in for this? Are you proposing something that is your idea or is there community support, because if you don't have community support we're going down the wrong road?” I think you've alluded to that.
When you get to enforcement, it's the same kinds of arguments. Is this something for which we have people who will really enforce it? I can remember when there used to be a $1,000 fine in my province for littering. Nobody ever got that fine because nobody was ever going to give that ticket. If they dropped it to $100, they gave a lot of tickets.
It's a really interesting process you're talking about when you talk about local decisions. We had a premier who, forever, used to say in our province to his MLAs when they would bring up things, “Have you talked to Martha and Henry? Go talk to Martha and Henry at their house and find out what they think before you propose something to implement and to enforce.”
Peter, could you talk a little bit more about local decision-making and how important that is to your process?