Thanks, Chair.
Just following up on my last line of questioning, I'd like to focus my remaining time on two other lines of questions. Two other pieces of Bill C-352, which is the private member's bill we're talking about, have not been addressed.
What I think we heard from witnesses is that about 98% or 99% of all the things that are in Mr. Singh's private member's bill have already been dealt with in Bill C-19, Bill C-56 and Bill C-59, which have made successive rounds of changes—I would call it a comprehensive package of amendments—over time, in three different bills, to our competition laws. I could go through all those changes, but we would run out of time very quickly.
I want to focus on two points.
One is that the fines that are being introduced in Bill C-352 put an upper limit on the fines.
We heard from the lawyers who were here earlier in the week that, in fact, allowing the discretion of the courts to basically determine a maximum fine is better—to have harsher penalties—than actually including a maximum upper limit to the fines people could be ordered to pay.
Mr. Charlebois, would you agree with the expertise of the lawyers that we shouldn't be reintroducing an upper limit?
Most legal proceedings that happen don't end up starting at a maximum penalty and over time, the courts could decide, if there's repeated behaviour, to surpass any upper limit we might conceive of here today.
What would you say about that, Mr. Charlebois?