Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank my colleague Ms. Zann for this important bill, which has been brought forward to committee.
Dr. Waldron, I've been reading up on your work. I am pleased to see you here today.
I'd like to pick up on some of the questioning of my colleague Mr. Bachrach to allow Ms. Waldron to unpack it perhaps a bit more. I think this is an important point as to why we're here today discussing Bill C-230.
Could you speak to the manifestations of systemic racism as it affects environmental policy, since we are going to go through a process of unpacking policy?
We have dark episodes in our very own Canadian history that are more easily identifiable, such as the residential school system. Environmental racism truly may be a less direct or less visible issue, and Canadians may not really understand why the matter is so important and why my colleague Ms. Zann felt it was important to bring it to the House and to committee.
How might systemic racism become manifest in our environmental policies?