Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and welcome to the committee, Minister, your virgin visit, so to speak.
Minister, I know, and I've heard you say this a number of times, that health and safety is a priority for you. However, C-4 changed the definition of danger, and that continues to concern me. I wondered if there isn't a kind of a contradiction between saying it is a priority and then making it more difficult for an employee to refuse to work in what he or she perceives as danger. Now, under the new rules, it has to be serious and imminent danger for the claim to be accepted.
So, Minister, my first questions are, please define what you consider “serious and imminent” and why did you change the definition?