If we get into a clean tech climate change kind of discussion, and show this committee to be the place.... Depending on how important the issue is to Canadians, the environment committee cycles up and down in terms of prominence. My ambition would be for all of us to cycle it up. If we take on the issues of the day, and they resonate with what a lot of Canadians are concerned about, then we'll have that. It's not that we're being adversarial with the other committees, but we don't want to launch into a 5- or 10-day study that almost exactly mirrors what another committee is doing, because that quickly gets very repetitive.
On February 16th, 2016. See this statement in context.