Thank you, Chair.
I thank all of you for joining the debate. I appreciate that all of you are on the same panel. Hopefully we can go back and forth with a few ideas.
I also want to thank Mr. Stewart-Patterson for in effect giving a pithy summary of the corporations' position. I thought it would be most useful if I asked those who promote Bill C-300 to respond to some of the assertions you've made in your paper.
For the first assertion, I will direct my question to Professor Giannini: the legislation is based on a flawed premise that assumes that Canadian companies are not to be trusted in their international operations. You made a rather interesting point about companies that investigate themselves. Can you expand on that point, please?