It does make you wonder whether this isn't exactly what the government wanted: to push through the legislation without letting parliamentarians hear from enough witnesses, get to the facts or base their decisions on science? I think the government's objective is to make decisions that are not based on science and to use the Standing Committee on Finance to do it. Everyone has their own view, I guess.
I have some questions about the review of the Pest Control Products Act. The government is delaying the application of section 80.1. The act is supposed to be reviewed every seven years. The seven-year deadline was in 2015. It's 2026. What do you make of the fact that the government didn't review or respect its own act, that before carrying out the review and respecting the act, it ultimately decided to riddle it with holes by inviting members of the pesticide lobby to appear before the committee?