What I'm saying is that we're changing the language to “attempting to preserve” because you can't ensure that you will preserve. The language in the agreement says:
while preserving the right of each of the parties
—and then in next piece, paragraph 7(f) says:
provide adequate and effective protection and enforcement
We're saying at the beginning there, to:
provide additional protection and enforcement
We think it's important to put that in so that it's not just “adequate and effective”, so that we're talking about additional protection to ensure that happens.
When we look at paragraph 7(g), we see nothing enforceable in what exists there. It says:
(g) protect, enhance and enforce basic workers’ rights, strengthen cooperation on labour matters, and build
We'd like to change that to:
protect, enhance and enforce basic workers' rights through voluntary mechanisms,
This is incredibly important because of the changes to the cabotage, which we'll go through later when we get to the Coasting Trade Act. People are quite concerned about workers who will be coming in under flags of convenience on those ships and who will be impacted by, unfortunately, what they know to be true on those ships, which is that the labour conditions are not anywhere near the Canadian conditions, so changing this to the language we have here strengthens it.