Mr. Speaker, I also have a responsibility to represent the views of my constituents, who often find that when big companies and rich executives face criminal charges, whenever they get some kind of plea deal, while it may sound like a lot of money to people who are making $30,000 or $40,000 a year, everybody knows that what they get charged is a drop in a bucket. As far as they are concerned, it is a slap on the wrist, and in some cases they go on, continuing to do exactly the same kind of behaviour.
That is why the integrity regime was brought in. It was brought in to give teeth and meaningful consequences to corporations that, until then, were paying fines and getting slaps on the wrist. It was a decision to try to get serious about this kind of stuff, which we have to do if we want Canadian corporations to go out in the world and conduct business in the way that I think all Canadians expect and in a way that does not put the jobs and lives of the workers on the line.
That was a decision that was made at the corporate board table, and Canadian executives need to know that there is going to be punishments for that. If they know that and they start behaving, then we are not going to have situations where their bad behaviour puts the lives of others in jeopardy.