Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In the fifth report by this committee in the last Parliament, “Pacific Salmon: Ensuring the Long-Term Health of Wild Populations and Associated Fisheries”, recommendation number four stated:
That the Government of Canada, the Province of British Columbia and, where appropriate, First Nation communities review the state of flood control/mitigation systems along the lower Fraser River and their impact on wild salmon, and co-develop a program to update pumping stations and other components, as necessary, to remove risks to wild salmon runs.
There's a great deal of work under way in British Columbia right now to recover from the floods, and I would like to move that we commit to what would be probably just a short study, focusing on the opportunity we have to address those risks to wild salmon as we recover from the floods and rebuild the flood-control infrastructure in the lower Fraser Valley.
I would move that we dedicate no more than three meetings, with a report to go to Parliament.