Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Bonsoir, Monsieur Dufault.
Ms. MacDonald and Mr. Isenberg, welcome home. Welcome back. Thanks for coming.
I think we're all very happy to have you back, because we're hoping you've had an opportunity to be briefed on the evidence that has been presented by different witnesses over the last several weeks, since your first appearance. I think it would be very helpful for me as an MP, and I hope my colleagues, to hear from you in terms of whether you've had an opportunity to synthesize or react to some of the suggestions that have been made.
I want to start with a couple of areas that are hanging out there. It would be important to get your feedback on your initial reaction, perhaps, or more thoughtful reaction, to some of the areas that were brought to our attention.
First I want to bring up with you this question of sanctions and the sanctionability of offences. Have you had any chance to look at whether or not we should be spelling out in more clear detail the question of sanctions?
I'd ask you to just hold that for a second, because I also want to link that to the question of whether or not in the bill, which I think calls upon the government to call upon you to formulate guidelines for a dispute resolution mechanism, we ought to be looking to prescribe with more specificity how the agency should be dealing with disputes.
We've had mixed evidence. Some have said we should go further; others have said we should leave it to the agency, and so on. So I want to connect those two, if I could, and get your reaction.