Transport committee  Absolutely, because your real problem is going to be not whether they will take jurisdiction over the ship; the real problem will be what their local conflicts of laws rule is and whether they will apply Canadian law as opposed to the law of the foreign country.

Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  Thank you. I am a maritime lawyer, and I am the west coast vice-president of the Canadian Maritime Law Association and the chair of the CMLA ad hoc committee, which was struck to look into and review the provisions of Bill C-7. The Canadian Maritime Law Association was founded in 1951 and is made up of individual and constituent members.