Thank you very much.
I must say I'm a little bit surprised that the NDP is proposing this motion. By my count we have spent about two full meetings discussing whether or not to bring Bill C-311 ahead. That's two full meetings that we could have spent hearing witnesses and deliberating, and here we are back at it again.
Now I well understand that the NDP has an agenda. It's their agenda to get their bill heard ahead of other things. They think their bill is more important than the water in the Athabasca River system. Their bill is more important than the concerns that were raised in Fort Chipewyan and other places about the oil sands. And their bill is more important than some of the other issues we've had in relation to the oil sands. But there surely has to be a limit to the amount of time one can spend debating the same thing over and over and over again.