Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am concerned. This is a very important legislative act. It's very important to Canadians. We all represent 100,000-odd people here. Quite frankly, we should have meetings in public. They should be accountable and transparent so that Canadians can see what's going on and what this committee is doing to move this legislation forward, because it deals with the health and the safety of our children and grandchildren for the next 100,000 years or so. I really think it's important that Canadians know what's going on
What we could do as a committee is have one of our first meetings at the end of January and very possibly, at that stage, have an agenda-setting meeting, so that we have tight timelines and get a report out. We'll have a list of witnesses, and everybody will come prepared. Everyone wants to work on this. All of us at the table have our own interest in the environment and an interest in this legislation, and I would like to see that be public to Canadians so that they can see what's going on and can see that we are concerned with the environment. As such, I would like to see the committee itself set the agenda.