I want to come back to the word change.
This error is over 20 years old. I am trying to correct what may have been a translation error, at the time. I will recall what I said earlier. The Rio Declaration was signed by Canada in 1992 and the act came not long after, seven years after that declaration. There may have been a slip in the translation.
I don't understand why we are not able to correct this. Are federal laws so rigid that we can't even correct a 20‑year-old mistake?
I don't care what legal argument I'm given, I'm saying that Canada signed the Rio Declaration, and I'm asking that our environmental law be consistent with that declaration that we signed internationally. This declaration does not refer to the “principe de prudence”, which is an accounting and economic principle, but rather to the “principe de précaution”, which is a principle that applies to the environment.