Thank you, Chair.
I appreciate what Mr. Barlow is bringing forward. I'm personally in favour of the first amendment, which is the inserting of the word “illegal”, but on the second amendment, my main focus is to try to keep this motion quite focused.
It's really a declaration of support for the agricultural industries that are being negatively impacted by the blockade. To flip it around, when the blockades were going on in February 2020, would this committee have entertained the idea of calling on the federal government to put in place a plan to stop all pipeline development? That's another way of flipping this. In the interests of trying to keep us all onside and on track, I would be in favour of removing that second amendment and keeping this motion worded with the addition of the word “illegal”.
That's the way I'm leaning, Mr. Chair.