Thank you, Chair.
First of all, thank you to Madame Pauzé. This was a very creative way of bringing the will of the committee into the public eye.
We have had testimonies that would reinforce these recommendations. I was also thinking of our analysts. Normally, we look at a report and we base our recommendations on the background that the analysts include in our report. We're going on a different route, but I think it's also very consistent with what we've heard. I don't think there would be any problem having a report align with these recommendations because we did hear them over and over, and, in particular, in getting Bill S-243 completed.
When Parliament gets hung up, we do need to find other ways of getting our signals to the market. I think having this discussed at committee in an open forum...and thank you for bringing it to an open forum instead of in camera. Having our comments either in support of these recommendations or not—I support every one of them—is important.
We have a sustainable finance forum coming up on November 28 and 29. It's put on by MP Turnbull. I know there will be about 1,000 people in that room who would be very interested to know what signals are coming out of the environment and sustainability committee, so getting this out there before the middle of February is a brilliant move, I think.
It's a little unusual, but given the delays we're seeing in Parliament and in committees, I think it's important, given the urgency of, first of all, the climate emergency we're in, but also because sustainable finance is a topic that we have had an extra-government committee look at. They've also been saying that we did all of this work two years ago, we'd like to see what the government is thinking. This gives us a chance to express that.
I know some of the people who worked internationally on this would be very interested to see that our comments are in alignment with their comments.
It's a great way of putting a signal to the market. I commend Madame Pauzé for her creativity. I haven't seen this before, but committees can be creative. I think it's good news for Canadians that we can find ways to work together on important issues, like the climate crisis we're in.
I'm fully in support of these four recommendations. As Madame Pauzé said, there will be others that will come from our study, which was an extensive study. I won't start picking at it, because we don't have it in front of us, but once we see the study.... There were some very key elements to that study that I would like to see recommendations on, but we're not studying the study, we're actually studying this letter, and so I would love to put my support behind this, Mr. Chair.