Mr. Chair, I'd like to put a question through you to the officials.
If in the wisdom of the government they want to allow for cases where there is not absolute liability—because we're talking about potentially massive impacts to public resources—does it not make more sense that those conditions and criteria be in the statute and publicly debated, as opposed to being in regulations that are not debated by parliamentarians? Is there a reason it was decided that the criteria would be set forth in the regulations and not in the statute?