Environment committee  No. The word “and” was inserted in error, Mr. Chairman.

Environment committee  That's correct, Mr. Chairman.

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, no, I don't think so. The intention is to be able to have a roster with the expertise needed, given the caseload the chief review officer is facing. So it would be implemented in keeping with what the needs are.

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, the law is absolutely...it's enabling, so it allows for the provision to be.... My understanding is that human health is becoming increasingly an issue for the chief review officer, so it allows for a flexibility to have an increased number of review officers appoin

Environment committee  The chief review officer.

Environment committee  Go ahead.

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, I'm sorry. I was having a little difficulty following, but I understand that we are back to the wording as proposed in the bill and that we are not studying the wording as proposed in the motion.

Environment committee  Adding a comma there, no, would not create any issue, I don't think.

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, certainly, I think it is accurate to say it is conjunctive in the phrase “environmental and human health”. Apart from that, there are four main rubrics and those are disjunctive from one another. The intention is to be able to pull people from that variety of back

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, we have Gillian Grant here. She is legal counsel with the Department of Justice in Transport Canada and probably has the most expertise in relation to the Marine Liability Act. She may be able to help the member.

Environment committee  I would just like to ask Ms. Cosgrove if she has a table that covers all the statutes this affects.

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, I believe the comments from Ms. Duncan are accurate. Although this is fairly rare, it is allowed under the Criminal Code. I can only speculate, Mr. Chairman. I think the numbers are quite small today, and as Ms. Duncan points out, it doesn't create a new power for pri

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, unfortunately I can't speak on the issue of whether there's a trend toward private prosecutions.

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, I feel that my role here as a public servant is somewhat constrained in that I'm not really at liberty to speak about policy alternatives that are discussed by the committee members. Really, I speak on behalf of the minister, and I wouldn't want to undermine the res

Environment committee  I would just underline that the Fisheries Act was not part of the exercise of harmonization, as we've talked about--