When you were the environmental secretary, your mandate was to protect the environment, obviously. Would you have benefited from the legislation that we have in front of us, to help you do your job? In other words, if there had been a concern about Canadian mining interests—in this case, you mentioned Barrick Gold—and your doing your job, would an accountability mechanism from our side, if there were one, have helped you do your job as the environment secretary? As you said, there's a kind of shared interest here.
On November 24th, 2009. See this statement in context.