Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
I have some pragmatic suggestions to follow up on with either Mr. Butler or Dr. Boyd, on those areas where the health minister, the environment minister, have mandatory duties to undertake monitoring and environmental impacts on health, but it's discretionary whether they have to talk to aboriginals or to affected communities.
It might be simple for us to switch and say there's a mandatory duty to provide an opportunity to have input. We've given those kinds of rights under environmental assessment but somehow we haven't continued them into other statutes. I'd appreciate any way that you could look at the statute so it might be easy to slip some of these in.
You know I'm a big defender of an environmental bill of rights. The reason I'm proposing a separate bill is this: CEPA has been one of the leaders and it led a lot of provinces to include those kinds of rights. The problem is we don't have the same rights in the endangered species act; we don't have it in fisheries; we don't have it in migratory birds, and so forth. I would welcome any suggestions on how to specifically include those kinds of rights in this bill, even any recommendations you might have to have an overriding right across the board when the government's going to make any kind of decisions that would impact the environment or health.
I'd be happy to hear from either of you.