Good afternoon, everyone.
This is meeting 39 of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development.
For those here in person, please remember to follow the health and safety guidelines, per the cards on the table, to prevent audio feedback incidents.
I have a couple of housekeeping pieces before we get to our business.
I would remind you that the deadline to submit written amendments to Bill C-241 is this Thursday, May 28, at 4 p.m.
I have an update on the invitation to Ms. Dawn Farrell of the Major Projects Office. She has declined to appear before this committee throughout the month of June based on her schedule. We may wish to consider some next steps on inviting Ms. Farrell again during committee business in the near future.
Regarding the approved motion for the study of the government's plastic manufacturing policy, in February, the committee agreed to hold one meeting to study this policy, and if there's no objection, we propose to schedule this, ideally, on June 11 during our regular meeting of ENVI. We could do June 18, but we're not sure if we'll still be here, so the 11th would be a safer date to hear witness testimony and invite the Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Nature to appear.
If that is the will of the committee, the clerk will invite witnesses to appear and, ideally, would have your witness requests by this Friday, May 29, by 2:30 in the afternoon.