Our community members were very excited about the notion of recognizing the right to a healthy environment, because they see this as a tool that's going to help them in the future to protect themselves and hopefully engage in some court processes and other things.
What has stopped them from doing this so far, besides limited opportunity in Manitoba, is the fact that it's incredibly expensive to engage in these types of processes.
That is one of the main things they've asked us to ask you for, any type of provisions—and we've made some recommendations in our written submission, which I don't think have made it to the full committee yet—that would create additional opportunities for financial supports, like participant funding. There was even some discussion by our community members about creating court challenges programs and things like that. Those could help community members to actually use the rights that will, hopefully, be recognized through Bill S-5.