Leading on to those concerns...first of all, I would like to say that we heard from a witness earlier this week from Argentina who said about Barrick specifically that she could not say they have ever broken any laws of Argentina. She, speaking as a lawyer, was saying it was because she is not a judge, but she could not specifically say.
However, there were a lot of suggestions throughout the interview of what could be done. The concern there was really that she was seemingly looking to Canada with this bill to reinforce the laws of her own country.
I couldn't quite discern whether it was because the laws of her own country were not complete enough or whether it was that they were not being reinforced or enforced in her own country. The concern is that she was looking at this bill as a vehicle of sorts to be able to reinforce the laws, which is quite a concern because that would put Canada in a position of enforcing laws of other countries and pre-empting other countries' laws, you could say.
Along with that, and the provisos in here of human rights, and the suggestions by human rights...that this would be the laws of the other countries, and that is the way she is reading it. It leads to the suggestion in certain other parts of the world that the person might be reinforcing laws, for example, sharia laws, and what that does to corporations.
So I can certainly see where the mining industry is very concerned about this type of an enactment, which can put corporations in a quandary as to how on earth do we ever deal with projects in other countries when you have this type of legislation that makes you have to adhere to laws that Canada doesn't even subscribe to but you have to subscribe to. So I can see the difficulty in this.
Mr. Peterson, you were in Parliament when I was here--