I would say in future if you get your meeting notice and if people aren't on the notice that you wanted to see, maybe you could get back to the clerk and make that suggestion or “Reply All“ so that we see that suggestion being made. I don't see this as short shrifting any of our study. I think we were getting to the right points. Also, having the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development have a second overview to make sure this wasn't a politicized process, which might have been the risk that Ms. Collins was looking at at the beginning of this study.... Having the department come at the end of the study was an unusual step that we took. The Conservatives and the NDP both agreed to shortening the study by a meeting, and we voted against that.
I'm at a loss. It's good the witnesses aren't here because it is a bit embarrassing. It looks like we weren't doing our job, when in fact I think we did our job. And the clerk did a great job of bringing the people forward. We had a lot of witnesses here today we could have heard from instead of doing this debate that we're now doing.
With that, I'll turn it back over to you, Mr. Chair. I'm just disappointed in the way politics is playing out in this committee. I know it's playing out in other committees. I know people are frustrated. I know that we're going through a lot of things with the pandemic. And here we are at committee trying to do the best for our constituents, but this is not doing the best for our constituents.