Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Boyd, thank you for appearing today. I have some comments and some questions regarding the statistics you brought forward.
A right to a healthy environment, we appreciate that very much. We'd like to make sure that we have definitions around these things. We have to acknowledge, as many witnesses have done before you, that there are many non-definitions of what's in this bill right now. When you bring forward a definition of a healthy environment, it is somewhat instructive because right now we're leaving this bill open to what some judge is going to interpret. I would like to make sure that this is clearly delineated within the legislation, what we're talking about here, which is the right to a healthy environment. Thank you for putting some definitions prospectively on the page about what that means.
Is it your estimation that the world, including Canada, has a more healthy environment today than it did one generation ago? Let's go to 1950, for instance. Is our environment more or less healthy at this point in time?