I think there are people who look at the regulatory question and say that what we need is regulatory diversity and that we don't need downward harmonization of regulations. We need the kind of regulatory perspective that deals with the needs of families, that deals with the needs of communities.
This kind of regulatory harmonization and a movement towards the bottom is something we have to fight back against, but we can't if we're not given the information about what kinds of regulations or about what the process is for engagement on this question.
If we only have employers and corporations who say, “We know all about these sectors, so we'll give the government advice”, well, there are other people involved in civil society and in the economy more generally who also have an experience of regulations. For example, port workers were very active on these discussions around security and regulatory reform in the ports. Had they not been there to respond to the issues, the regulatory reforms for port workers would have been even more onerous.
I think what we need to see is a broad-ranging kind of discussion about regulatory reform. It has to be democratized.