The approach taken in the bill to ensure compliance is the use of an administrative monetary penalty mechanism, to ensure in that way that there is a strong incentive to comply with the agreement.
The specific issue of penalties raised by the shippers, as the department and the minister noted when we were here the last time, is that there were issues around asking what is effectively a regulatory agency to predetermine penalties before a breach takes place. There were problems with that particular mechanism.
In the end, as the minister stated when he was before the committee, the use of administrative monetary penalties was chosen as a mechanism that is very strong and that provides a very strong deterrent to non-performance or non-respect of a contract, without getting into the difficulties that the penalty approach raised by the shippers would have presented.