Certainly that question could best be answered by the government witnesses, if you get a chance. I believe the minister may speak to this. That would be a question for him.
My understanding of the consultation process is that Transport Canada determined that there was a need to review the Marine Liability Act. A number of issues had been identified by all stakeholders across the system with respect to the current legislation. They produced a position paper on all of the issues that they identified and that were identified by stakeholders such as the adventure tourism industry, shipowners, and ship suppliers. They then went out with that paper to a broad cross-section of stakeholders, sought their input, and as a result of that input, made recommendations to this committee in Bill C-7. So my understanding certainly is that although we had specific discussions about issues that were of interest to domestic shipowners, there was broad consultation, as I said, with ship suppliers, tourism interests, and others across the country.