Harold Albrecht at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

I'd like to call our meeting to order.

This is meeting 34 of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. We are continuing today with our study of Bill C-40, an act respecting the Rouge national urban park.

We are pleased to have witnesses from the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, the Waterfront Regeneration Trust Corporation, and the York Region Federation of Agriculture.

Mr. Éric Hébert-Daly, national executive director, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, will speak first for seven minutes, and then we'll follow with Pauline Browes and Kim Empringham.

With the number of witnesses we have today, we'll try to leave some time for questions and answers.

We will proceed with Mr. Hébert-Daly, for the first seven minutes.