Environment committee  We are trying to spread a full suite of creative sentencing options across all of the statutes. As Mr. Woodworth indicated, the change is to broaden the wording from “environmental studies” to capture studies related to the environment in biology, geography, and engineering. The

Environment committee  That's the way it has been in common law for a long time now. This is a codification of what exists in common law. Moreover, if you delete the words “despite having the financial means to do so”, as Mr. Woodworth mentioned, that will make it so this clause on aggravating factors

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, Ms. Cosgrove, Ms. Tingley, and I will be staying. I think Mr. MacCallum would take his leave of the committee unless the committee felt that the issue of due diligence needed to be explored further.

Environment committee  My understanding is that if the vessel were to be charged--and a vessel could be charged--then the vessel itself could be an asset.

Environment committee  My understanding is that the Marine Liability Act puts into law in Canada those conventions that Canada has ratified. In particular, the civil liability convention is reflected in part 6. I believe there is a bill before Parliament, Bill C-7, which would put into law in Canada a

Environment committee  Yes, Mr. Chairman. Such a provision currently exists in the MBCA, and the provision is opened up in the bill in order to make a consequential amendment. In addition, the government has four draft government motions that would bring exactly the same kind of provision into other ac

Environment committee  Yes. That's correct, Mr. Chair.

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, I would say that perhaps there was a little too much emphasis on the $6 million and the $12 million. Certainly from my reading of the testimony, that seems to be the point that was retained. In relation to the human resource challenges that are faced by the indust

Environment committee  Yes, Mr. Chair, I read all the testimony from Thursday.

Environment committee  This bill doesn't change any of the requirements that are established at law for the shipping industry or, for that matter, other industries. All it does is change the maximum fines that can be imposed. It creates a tiered regime for fines and tries to bring penalties up to date,

Environment committee  Yes, that's correct. I believe the only motion is the one about section 280, put forward following the—

Environment committee  Yes, that's correct.

Environment committee  I believe this is one of the issues that the shipping industry raised, which was a good point. It is now the subject of a draft government motion to ensure that this doesn't happen and that this issue is corrected. Under the current scheme it was either/or, and it's not supposed

Environment committee  Exactly.

Environment committee  I'm not a lawyer so I can't give a legal opinion. What I can say is that the Department of Justice did fully vet the bill through all stages of development. So we are confident that the Department of Justice did conclude that regarding everything from international obligations, c