Mr. Chair, we have a few other items here under item six, “other matters”, including carbon sequestration. That's very important.
Mr. Godfrey, Mr. Ouellet—I'm trying to think of who else—Nathan Cullen, and I went to Berlin and heard that the world is counting on carbon capture and storage to reduce approximately 25% of greenhouse gas emissions.
Canada is one of the world leaders in that technology. It's in our budget 2009. That may be something the committee wants to consider, because it is a very serious tool to fight climate change. We may want to plan a couple of meetings on it, and that's why I suggested that it be in there.
On travel, if we're going to be dealing with the oil sands and the impact on water, it's very important that you actually see it firsthand. But again, the steering committee will be dealing with that.
Mr. Chairman, I just wanted to find out if there's consensus so that we're using our meetings wisely and properly. This week we have our meeting schedule. Next week we have just the steering committee. I suggest that Tuesday, a week from today, we then hear from the steering committee and hopefully provide a meeting similar to this, but much more strategic, to agree with the recommendations or critique the recommendations of the steering committee. That would be Tuesday of next week.
Then on Thursday we could start with water. I'm just wondering if there is consensus among the committee members to start that next week.