Good afternoon, everybody. This is meeting number 43 of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. This is a meeting that is public for the first hour and in camera for the second hour.
For those attending in person, please follow the health and safety guidelines as per the cards on the table to prevent audio or feedback incidents for our interpreters.
Before we begin, regarding Bill C-244, the committee is still scheduled to meet with the sponsor of this private member's bill and government officials on June 16, which is next week. We deferred this decision, and we need to decide if the committee would like to meet as planned next week and then proceed with the clause-by-clause review of the bill in September. If we do that, we would need to set a deadline to receive written amendments to the bill, and a suggestion for that deadline is 4 p.m. on Monday, September 14, 2026. The committee could also choose to postpone the entire study until September, including the meeting that we have scheduled for next week, but then we would have a gap next week.
Is it the will of the committee that we proceed as planned with listening to the sponsor, having amendments due in September and then continuing from there?
Go ahead, Mr. Leslie.