Thank you very much.
Essentially what I'm asking the committee is to do what it did already and to be consistent with its decision in the last Parliament, which is to do a study of the impact of the oil sands on water. So I'm reintroducing a motion that is almost 90% the same, which was adopted unanimously, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, in the last Parliament when we got started on the study but were interrupted when the election was called.
I mean very sincerely, to those who might be sensitive on the issue of the oil sands, that this is not an attempt to beat up on the oil sands in any way, shape, or form. It's an attempt to get to the bottom of some issues that have been circulating in the media, that have raised a lot of question marks. It's because I think it's our responsibility to look at how the oil sands are affecting rivers in the area that might even cross into other provinces, and how the oil sands may be affecting—and I'm not prejudging the issue—the health of aboriginal people, first nations people, downriver from the oil sands, and whether our obligations under the Migratory Birds Convention Act are somehow being compromised.
I hope we find everything is hunky-dory, but I think it's our responsibility as federal legislators to do these kinds of studies. And again, I'm just proposing that we adopt what we essentially adopted at the last committee.