Thank you very much, Chair.
Hello everyone and welcome to this meeting of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development.
The tragedy we are discussing today must not be ignored. We must get to the bottom of it. What happened at the Kearl mine in Alberta cannot reoccur. Unfortunately, it did occur, so we need to draw the appropriate conclusions and learn from this experience to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. We also need to look at how the crisis was managed. We need to get to the bottom of things. It’s our duty to do so. That’s why we’ve already heard from the primary victims of this situation, i.e., Indigenous communities, but also from the head of Imperial Oil in Canada.
I now yield my time to the MP for the riding in which the incident occurred, Laila Goodridge.