Where did I learn what had happened? It grew out of the Piper Alpha disaster when Lord Cullen made certain recommendations. Out of that came the concept, which was adopted in the U.K., and shortly afterward in Norway, of a separate safety entity, call it an authority, or what you will. Then it went to Australia and they adopted that.
It's interesting. Do you remember the presidential commission following the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that was headed by Senator Bob Graham and William K. Reilly? I've spoken to both of these men and we've exchanged reports. They also felt and recommended that there should be a separate safety authority rather than the authority that deals with the operators on a day-to-day basis, granting permission to operate, to explore, to bring an operation into being.
These are the things that make made me feel that a separate safety authority was a good thing, but I was perceptive enough to realize that not everybody might agree, and I hold no grudge about that. Therefore I put in the second thing. Canada's offshore is Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. It is a small offshore compared with the North Sea or the Gulf of Mexico, or other parts of the world. So I thought at the time that the powers that be—I suppose you are the powers that be, in some sense—may not feel that a separate safety authority was needed or that it was time for one, and therefore I put in the second part (b), that if it's not felt this is the right way to go, then here is a fallback way. I am happy to say that I think that fallback way has been adopted and good has come from it, which pleases me as an individual very much.