Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques for his comments.
I would like to ask him a question concerning his constituents and the importance of the economy in the province of Quebec and across Canada.
During today's debate, we have already discussed the economic consequences of a remediation agreement.
I have outlined that remediation agreements are actually becoming very much the norm throughout the world. They have been in place since the 1990s in the United States. They exist in France, Singapore, Japan and in the United Kingdom.
We have a remediation agreement that exists now, and that remediation agreement includes things such as specific aspects of culpability of the potential corporate offender: an admission of guilt, forfeiting of any benefit, paying a penalty, paying restitution, implementing a change of behaviour and co-operating with any further investigations.
Is that the type of mechanism that can assist in addressing corporate malfeasance but at the same time ensure that the workers in his riding and in his province, and indeed throughout this country, are not affected disproportionately by corporate malfeasance in a given case?