Yes, let's go to the point of the bill, which is to remove this money from the operability of an exploration or development project. Say its legitimate purpose would be to have that company stop. Because there isn't anything in here saying we will remove it if you do this; it says if you're doing it, we'll remove it. So that means that company and the government's ability to move that company in a direction that Canadians think is appropriate is gone, so now the Canadian government steps up and says, we don't think this company was behaving right. The next guy may not be any better, so we want to continue to intervene to make sure those people who we felt were badly impacted don't get any worse treatment. But that's not in the law either.
On October 20th, 2009. See this statement in context.