Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, everyone. It's a pleasure to see you again.
Substantially, my amendment PV-10 is quite close in content to G-8, but I urge you to carry this one so that it shows some willingness to hear from opposition parties that care about this bill.
In Bill S-5 in current subclause 7(3.1), the sentence ends with “referred to in paragraph 2(1)(a.2).” My amendment would expand that to make it clear that in looking at research studies and monitoring activities in support of protecting the right to a healthy environment, the minister shall be mindful of the wording that is found further up in that paragraph. Obviously, this includes the precautionary principle; principles of environmental justice; the polluter pays principle; and principles for sustainable development, substitution, non-regression and intergenerational equity. Those principles are generally found above in the same paragraph.
I'll stop there, Mr. Chair.
If there are any questions, I'd urge the committee members to give this amendment their support.