Environment committee  It depends on the case and what sort of evidence they're going to bring forward and whether or not it's relevant to the actual circumstances of the offence. Lots of times corporations want to show they're good corporate citizens and bring all their history of all the good things

Environment committee  There's nothing specific that we thought might cause a constitutional challenge, but when you have a new bill and you have minimums, there's a potential.

Environment committee  I would add to that--and it doesn't matter whether PPSC is looking at a crown brief pre-charge or after charges--that if there's a gap in the evidence and we feel it needs to be covered in order for there to be a successful prosecution, we go back to the investigators. We say tha

Environment committee  If I may, I'll answer that question. We work in cooperation with the investigators during their investigations to answer any questions they have. Once their investigation is complete, they will send us a brief of all of their evidence, which we will review. They'll provide us a

Environment committee  It's more black and white.

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  I don't know the exact reason, but from a prosecutor's perspective, that's what would result.

Environment committee  Yes, I would definitely say that would be an accurate way of looking at it.

Environment committee  The bill does provide different minimums and maximums. One is for individuals, one is for small revenue corporations under $5 million, and the other is a catch-all for everyone else. So there is already some consideration in the bill for ensuring, for instance, for a smaller comp

Environment committee  As Ms. Proulx stated, there are not mandatory minimum fines for all of the offences within the bill, just the more serious ones. There's also a clause that the court can use--I'll call it the undue hardship clause--if they wish to go below the minimum fine because they feel it wo