Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to each of our witnesses for being here.
What I'm going to do here is try to take the perspective on a practical level as a worker who is going to go out there to work and try to figure out what this would mean to him, her, me, or whoever is going out there.
Mr. Labonté, you said in your remarks that there were three basic rights that workers have: the right to be informed, the right to refuse dangerous work, and the right to participate in safety decisions. I'll admit that I haven't read every page of this bill yet. I may not get there.
What would this mean? How would this work in practice? How would I understand this? How would it relate directly to workers out there? Could you give some examples of what it would mean to be informed? How would I participate in a safety discussion if I were a worker? What would be the right to refuse?
What is dangerous or what is not can be incredibly subjective. What I'm getting from what you're talking about, you want to give the worker the benefit of the doubt because this is potentially a high-risk occupation. Could you give me a few practical illustrations of what it would mean to someone who's going out on the rig for the first time?