Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for their contributions today.
I'd like to ask you about some very relevant issues, such as the extended producer responsibility as regards the polluter pay principle.
But first I am going to propose a motion. I believe most of the committee members have received a copy of it. If possible, we could hold the discussion and vote during the last 15 minutes of the meeting, in public, of course. The motion reads as follows:
That the Committee meet before the summer recess to consider the public's and the scientific community's growing concerns about the immediate threat posed by seismic prospecting and exploration work currently being done in the marine environment of species listed in the Species at Risk Act and other vulnerable species in the Gros-Cacouna region of the St. Lawrence River; that representatives of the Department of the Environment be invited to this meeting to answer questions on this matter and to establish what activities would have been subject to a federal environmental assessment under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act if this act had not been repealed; and that the Committee report its findings and recommendations to the House.