Environment committee  I just want to point out as well that the per day nature, or the possibility to charge per day, exists in many of our statutes already. It's quite a common factor in environmental legislation now.

Environment committee  That detail isn't included in the bill. That could be part of the discussion or the cases submitted by prosecution staff. And the discretion would be with the judge, if that were to be specified.

Environment committee  Sure. I guess to start, the distinction with the ticketing regime, which also exists in federal statutes, is that these are purely administrative penalties.

Environment committee  There's no stigma; there's no conviction associated with those. So the due process that we're proposing to put in place is tailored to that level of lower stigma. The chief review officer would have the ability to determine whether the violation took place and alter the penalty a

Environment committee  The other information having to do with the status of investigations...?

Environment committee  The reason the staff compile those lists, and all regions do, is that often the judge is not prescribing. We want to be ready to have a group of individuals or organizations who can use the funds. The purpose of not specifically directing it—although if I'm not mistaken the court

Environment committee  The bill requires that corporate conviction data be made available on our registry. We found that it's actually not as easy as one would hope to find these records. It depends on where the decisions are located. There are provincial courts across the country.

Environment committee  We don't have the actual details, but we could provide those further. There are several studies that have focused on corporations and shown that corporate behaviour specifically is affected by penalties. In addition, penalties are commonly known to be an effective deterrent and