Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you, all three of you, for your very helpful presentations today.
Ms. Payne, first of all—and perhaps others would comment as well—I know that you, in addition to currently being the Atlantic director for Unifor, spent five years as president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour. You and others have talked about the fact that only guidelines had been in place for a couple of decades, and how it was taking 12 or 13 years to actually come out with and bring into force this legislation that everybody seems to think is a good idea.
Why would it take 20 years for us to get to this point when everyone says safety is first and the number one priority of these companies and of government and everybody else? Why are we here dealing with this 20 years later, instead of 20 years ago?