Thank you.
Amendment NDP-18 would amend section 132(2)(f) of the act to require the court to consider, at the time of sentencing, the fact that the offender was subject to the order of an authority and that the offence was committed as the result of such an order.
The purpose of the amendment is to prevent situations like the one in Lac-Mégantic, where the engineer was by himself for the trip and had to leave the train unattended in order to sleep. The engineer was alone as a result of the employer's instruction and was nevertheless found liable. So the amendment seeks to keep that kind of thing from happening in the case of pipelines.