Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all of our witnesses for coming today to help us try to improve this piece of legislation.
Conservatives obviously believe—and we've been making the case for over a decade—that Canada needs to build and needs to build faster, but on the transportation side, I'm really concerned that your industry is getting the short end of the stick in this bill.
Essentially, part 1 of the bill gives a statutory 12-month term. Now, we could take issue with whether that will actually deliver, but in part 2, where transportation is, there is just a cabinet directive that basically says there will be a one-year process.
There's a single window. I would prefer to actually make the national supply chain window the entity, because it exists right now and it has some familiarity with supply chains, but it's toothless.
I'll give an example. The Deltaport expansion, berth four, is a current project. As of September 19, 2026, the federal dashboard showed zero of five potential permits completed. The potential permits span Transport Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Outside of Transport Canada's area are the disposal at sea permit, the Fisheries Act authorization and the Species at Risk Act permits involving DFO and ECCC.
The question I have for all of you is this: Do you believe that there should be statutory timelines of a year in part 2 of the bill for Transport Canada? Do you believe that the office—whatever it ends up being—needs to have the coordinating power, so that you have a single window that can get all of that permitting done within the same time, just like in section 1?
I'll start with Mr. Harvey.