Thank you very much.
I'd like to thank all the witnesses for their presentations.
It's difficult, but I want to try to draw it together by asking Mr. McGuinty a question, if I may.
Mr. McGuinty, you described in your presentation that you've already received a lot of complaints or issues being raised that you regarded as frivolous or vexatious or not having any factual basis. Is it not possible to look at something like Bill C-300—and we can all talk about how it might be improved—and say that it's the one mechanism that actually gives you the opportunity to get the minister to say that there is absolutely no foundation for this? As it now stands, you can say there is no foundation to this, but you're you. It's the same thing with me. If I've done or haven't done something and somebody says I have, I'm going to say that I didn't do it. You need somebody else to come in and say that there is no basis for the complaint at all.
Given the fact that now corporate social responsibility is an accepted premise and principle of activity, we have now a series of measures that the government has initiated that in fact provide for some modest accountability—not as much as many people think is necessary, but some. I'm not quite sure if I understand why Bill C-300 is seen by you as so revolutionary.
The fact is, these complaints are being made anyway. We've heard from Mr. Giannini and Ms. Knuckey that they themselves have gone down and interviewed people and have come forward with terrible accusations with respect to activities surrounding a mine in Papua New Guinea. Where do these complaints go if we don't create some kind of process that allows them to be considered and then say, yes, there is a foundation to this one, but there's absolutely no foundation to the other one? I hear your anxiety and I hear your concern, and I'm not insensitive to it. But I'm just wondering, given that there are going to be these complaints and that there is going to be anti-mining agitation around the world—we have it in Ontario and we have it everywhere—why would there not be some advantage to you in having a mechanism to deal with it?