Thank you, Chair. I just want to address the comments made by Ms. Duncan that there was an agreed agenda. There was not an agreed agenda. I think there was a motion that was passed by the coalition to not deal with SARA, which I disagreed with, and I made that very clear to each of the members.
I think we had a moral responsibility to fufill our first responsibility, which was to finish SARA and to make sure that species that are at risk are being dealt with properly. But that was voted on--the coalition said no, we don't want to deal with SARA--so we're now dealing with Bill C-469.
I'm a little concerned also that the number of witnesses is being very one-sided. We're not hearing from industry. We're not hearing from first nations. We're not hearing from fishermen. We're not hearing from Hydro-Québec; we heard from testimony that Hydro-Québec could be shut down, and yet we're forging ahead with Bill C-469.
I think we need to hear witnesses or we need to proceed to clause-by-clause, but to have this go on, and without an agreement about how long this is going to be, I think it's fruitless.