But you would agree as well that the Canadian Maritime Law Association and the Canadian Bar Association both recommended in their briefs that adventure tourism operators be required to exercise that due diligence and to ensure the seaworthiness of their vessels and the competency of their masters and crews at the beginning of the voyage, and that they be prohibited from contracting out these requirements?
I say this because as some of these discussions will move from the form of making law to interpreting law and end up in the courts, I'm sure that smart lawyers will take a look at what the intent of the legislators would be, and they would probably refer to the Hansard of this meeting to say what is it that was on the minds of those legislators. The legislators also consulted with experts in that particular field, and those experts continued by saying participants in any of these activities might be aware of and accept the risks inherent in such activities, but they should not have to accept the risk imposed by an operator who uses substandard equipment or an inadequately trained crew. Those aren't my words; that is the advice of those experts in law and in courts that have had to deal with these kinds of differences that Mr. Jean talks about.
So I refer again to the reason, the rationale, why we put this addition into that legislation, and with all due respect to the lawyers who were consulted by the Department of Transport on this matter, I think it's a pretty good principle to underscore, and it is that you try to put in the safety of the participants as best you can.