I call the meeting to order.
This being the 52nd meeting of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, our task this morning is to review certain clauses of Bill C-45.
I want to report to the committee before we hear from the witnesses, because the hope was that we would have some additional witnesses. We called every witness recommended both by the opposition members and by the government members and, unfortunately, because of the short notice, we were not able to get any additional witnesses.
We reached a time—yesterday at noon, approximately—when we made the judgment call that it was too late to try to continue searching for some witnesses. My apologies: we did try, but for every name that we got, the people weren't available or they did not want to come as witnesses.
We do have the witnesses from the department here for an hour, and then the plan is to break. With more witnesses, we were going to hear from them for an hour and a half; I've made a judgment call of just an hour with the witnesses, and then we'll go in camera and discuss Bill C-45.
Do I have your okay on that?