Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I don't want to run out the clock on this for the rest of the time, but I'll briefly answer Laurel's question to the extent that I can, and I'll defer to the officials to build on that.
This will require consultations. On “any interested persons”, I take the point on the issues of standing. We've seen that in other pieces of legislation in the past. That's why we have this ongoing consultation that's being done right now on the new substance notification regulations: to really be able to build this out and give it meaning and define it further. As part of this amendment, there is going to be a requirement to publish a notice of this, as well as to consult interested persons.
I will defer to officials on this next point here, about the impact if this were not just organisms native to Canada, or if these were organisms that were native throughout the world.
Thank you.