Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to follow up Mr. Bigras' very good point.
It is very critical that we very urgently be briefed by the government on what is happening with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. He very validly is saying that through the budget bill there are backhanded changes being made to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, which should be validly tabled before this committee.
We've only discovered through a backdoor, again through NGOs and not through the government, that they have referred the review of CEAA to the CCME, which is not provided for in the statute. So we urgently need clarification on what the plan of action is by the government on the statutory requirement for the review of CEAA.