I'm sure you understand that the timing of the legislation is that the legislation was proposed by Mr. McKay before the government told us what their position was on corporate social responsibility. We had a debate in this committee, a discussion in this committee, a report from this committee, and then we had a long period of delay. Then Mr. McKay brought forward his measure and then the government brought forward the counsellor process.
Many of the things that you've described as part of the problem that would be associated with Bill C-300 also apply to the counsellor process. Anybody can complain, anybody can go to the Internet, to the world, to wherever they want to go and say this activity has gone on, it's terrible, it's awful. The company's reputation is affected by that decision of whatever group to come forward.
The counsellor receives the complaint, and the counsellor then asks the company, do you want us to proceed? The company might object. They might say they don't like this, they object to it, so they'll put out a big press release.
The point is that part of what I find in your presentation and also dans la présentation de Monsieur Gascon is we have created a process in Canada now and many other countries are doing the same thing. The reason we've created a process is because there's a perception of a problem.