Mr. Chair, the whip has just informed me that there have been some discussions among the whips. The House will very likely be informed about the study of the bill on species at risk. That has just happened.
As regards other business, I am somewhat surprised to hear through the media that the government and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency are in the process of providing briefings to environmental groups. They are telling them that we will be amending the Environmental Assessment Act so that some projects will no longer have to go through environmental assessment, not just projects that cost $10 million or less, as the Minister of Infrastructure said, but also certain other projects as well.
I have the impression that something is happening behind closed doors, without Parliament's knowledge. I would find it completely unacceptable that civil society groups are being informed about amendments to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act to remove from its coverage certain projects that come under the National Energy Board or Atomic Energy Canada, when parliamentarians have not been informed of this.
What explanation can there be for the fact that civil society groups are aware that legislative changes will be made to the Environmental Assessment Act, while we parliamentarians are being kept in the dark? I do not know whether the parliamentary secretary could tell us whether the government intends to amend the Environmental Assessment Act.