Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to direct the attention of the committee to the following motion:
That the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans hold a meeting, before the summer adjournment, to address mounting public and scientific concerns over the immediate threat posed by seismic exploratory work, geotechnical drilling and other exploratory work to be conducted within the marine environment to species listed under the Species at Risk Act and other vulnerable species in the Gros-Cacouna region of the St. Lawrence River; that Department of Fisheries and Oceans officials be invited to that meeting to provide the committee with a complete list of the conditions the Department established for this work, along with the scientific basis upon which these conditions are based, and to respond to questions in this regard, and clarify which activities, if any, would have been subject to a federal and environmental assessment under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act prior to its repeal; and that the committee report its conclusions and its recommendations to the House of Commons.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.