Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I welcome Mr. Strahl's questions and interventions.
I think the process of creating regulations takes some time. We've seen other bills under which three years has been allowed for the government to create the regulations and bring them into force. Some of them have taken less than that, sometimes as little as a year. I think, with the subamendment that's been proposed, if this part of the act came into force on January 1, 2031, the actual prohibition of coal exports wouldn't come into effect until the regulations were written and came into force. They would have to go through the regulatory process, which recently has involved a discussion paper and then a framework and then the different regulatory steps, the Canada Gazette, part I, etc.
I don't know if there's another approach that might be taken, perhaps even just a simple subamendment to the Bloc amendment that would read “Regulations made under paragraph (1)(a) must prohibit the loading and unloading of thermal coal to and from ships in a port by 2030” or “by the end of 2030” or “by January 21, 2031”. I think that would imply that the crafting the regulations with that regulatory process—