Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all of our witnesses for their excellent and interesting testimony today.
I have two questions. I think I will ask them separately. They deal with some of the points of tension in the bill, where I think there are legitimate views on all sides.
Ms. MacDonald brought up the issue of timelines. Let's use the issue of timelines for assessment as one of our examples. Obviously, there's the need to assess a certain chemical quickly to protect the health of Canadians and to put pressure on the system to do that. The other pressure is to do our assessments properly, so we're making sure that the research is robust and it is giving us all the information we need to assess. Another issue would be resourcing these processes—which the government often doesn't do properly—which causes delays.
I wonder if there is an agreement among industry and the environmental community on this issue that there might be timelines set, but there might be a bit of a safety valve so that the appropriate research can take place.
That's for whoever wants to go first.