Thank you very much for the question.
I'm sorry, but I don't have the French version in front of me, only the English version. The original intent, when this law was passed, was that this section would constitute a strict liability offence.
In 2015, as I mentioned earlier, there was a spill, and the court that handed down the ruling interpreted the law very differently. The government could have appealed the decision, but it didn't.
So this amendment brings us back to the original intent of the law. If you abandon a vessel without following the steps a reasonable person would take, that constitutes an offence.