Madam Chair, I share the same concerns. We have said at this table many times already that the time frames that have been imposed upon this committee by the government, after the government had committed to not interfering in committee work, are unreasonable and much too short to deal with such a broad piece of legislation that incorporated, as my colleague just said, navigable waters, the Canadian energy regulator, and the impact assessment act all in one piece.
To short-circuit this by not giving this legislation the time required to get it right is, quite frankly, a disgrace. Canadians who watch and hear what's going on in this committee know that at the end of the day the result will be something that is highly unsatisfactory to pretty well everybody, both those in industry and those on the environmental side. Why? First, the number of witnesses who were allowed to appear at this committee was restricted to, say, 24 or 25.