Thank you, Chair.
I'm going to be moving an amendment. I appreciate the efforts of Mr. Bigras. In fact, the Bloc tabled the motion without even hearing any of the witnesses. It's important that we don't have our minds made up before we hear from the witnesses. It's putting the cart before the horse. We have to be careful that we base our decisions on testimony we've heard. Some accuse politicians of the expression, “Don't confuse me with the facts.” Well, I think we need the facts.
We've heard conflicting testimony here today, and it was so rushed. I think we need to hear more. I'm hoping Mr. Bigras would accept as a friendly amendment that we first hear from some more witnesses. So I would make the amendment that, after “Sustainable Development”, it would read as follows: “hold further hearings on the issue of phosphorus to study the possible impacts on the environment”.
I agree that we need to look carefully at the impacts of phosphorus, but we want to be careful that our decisions are heading in the right direction. We want to focus on solutions.
So that's my amendment.