I am quite shocked at the attempt by Mr. McGuinty to not hear from witnesses. I don't know if he's aware that there was a smog alert in Windsor yesterday, and there's a smog alert today in Windsor and Toronto. The topic for today is smog, and we have the witnesses here. Now to tell these witnesses who have come ready to share with the committee about smog...I'm shocked.
Chair, maybe you could share the reason why we have the witnesses here. You have the discretion. I could go through Marleau and Montpetit and share information on the authority you have. The chair and the clerk have the authority to arrange meetings, and now we have the witnesses here. To change this and tell the witnesses after they've come here that we're not going to hear from them....
There is a very disturbing pattern here. I've asked this committee and I've asked Mr. McGuinty numerous times that we deal with solutions on the environment. We see these silly games being played by the Liberals, and it's very disturbing.
Canadians want us to work on the environment. They want us to work on solutions. We have people here to talk about solutions and how to deal with smog. Now to say we're not going to deal with solutions is very disturbing.
Maybe you could share with the committee why we have people here today to talk about smog.