Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I understand the intent of the amendment, but if the primary purpose of this whole motion—and there may be others—is to take a look at the Canadian Coast Guard's ability and capacity to deal with oil spills that may well happen in the Atlantic and on the east coast and the Pacific coast, as well as the Arctic waters, it seems to me that if we want a motion to say let's bring in the Canadian Coast Guard to talk about it...because there has been an internal audit that's raised some deficiencies, and we certainly acknowledge that. Let's bring them in to see how they are prepared to handle oil spills, wherever they might happen. We're not opposed to that kind of thing
So now we're just worried about the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Arctic, and not the Atlantic or the Pacific? The amendment is actually constricting it more than I think it needs to be.