Thanks, Mr. Chair. I'd like to thank the committee for working well together in your absence on Monday.
Looking through version two, and maybe another deeper glance at the recommendations, we're now at 33 recommendations. I know we talked initially about trying to pare this down. Significant new amendments were also added regarding neonicotinoids and bees. I would prefer to have a little bit more time to look at this to try to pare down these amendments, which I don't think we can do today.
I would suggest, and this is my suggestion only, that our teams go back and find ways to try to amalgamate some of these amendments. Some of them are fairly close. It would be my preference that we take this back—it's not going to happen anywhere between now and September, unfortunately, despite our best efforts—and try to pare this down into something that's a bit more manageable. We now have almost as many amendments as we do pages in the report. I just don't think that's constructive.
That would be my opinion.