Thank you for being here today and thank you for the frankness and the brevity with which you presented your concerns here today. I can tell you that on the opposition side we are deeply concerned about the rush by the minister to proceed notwithstanding the number of recommendations made in the TPRP.
I wanted to point out for my colleague Mr. Shipley that Bill C-41's genesis was Bill C-19, and it was this member of Parliament who had everything to do with making that happen. Unfortunately, we had a lot of opposition at that time, including that from your party.
I realize, Mr. Shipley, you weren't here at the time, but I want to make it abundantly clear that the issue of fines concerns us. Fines, if they are limited only to administrative monetary penalties that go back to general revenue, assuming the time it takes to even get a fine, cannot possibly help you, the aggrieved party.
Tell me, from your perspective, how you see these fines--assuming that your various companies have been found to be in a position of having been egregiously violated--helping your company stay in business, or will you be gone by that point?