Very importantly, the bill makes room for vexatious and unfounded claims to be dismissed. I understand that under administrative law in Canada there is a well-established body of law regarding the need for administrative decisions to be consistent with jurisprudential requirements regarding, for example, the role of law, access to justice, and so on. The claims that have no foundation whatsoever ought to actually be able to be dismissed fairly well within the context of Bill C-300.
It hasn't been my experience that the existence of documentation, witness testimony, or information from the ground that has been presented to companies generally has been dismissed as hearsay. In my experience, having done this type of work for several years, the only company that has ever dismissed out of hand the information that we have been able to put forward to them has been Barrick Gold Corporation.