Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I've had an opportunity to speak with Fin regarding his motion, and I appreciate the spirit of why the motion was brought forward. I think good points were raised on the other side with regard to the allocation of time. I think we could probably accommodate the time, but again, within the responsibility of this committee, we don't want to be perceived as being a committee that is going to start to weigh in on every environmental assessment that's taken place across the country.
But given that DFO is a stakeholder in the review panel, I think the gist of what I got from Fin was that he wanted to get a sense as to whether or not DFO had the tools at its disposal to do a proper assessment from its perspective. That was what I took from our discussion. I see that as being important and relevant.
But I tend to agree with the comments made earlier about maybe not defeating this motion but deferring it and waiting to see the outcome of the cabinet decision and the response received from the cabinet decision.
I would think this is where we would want to be.