Thank you, Chair.
We obviously brought this production order up last week. We sat here for about 40 minutes while the government filibustered it. This is a super important issue for thousands of workers in my riding and for first nations chiefs who support aquaculture.
It's not even necessarily a question about the industry itself. It's a question about transparency and about what's going to happen. Thousands of people do not know if they're going to have a job a couple of years from now and if they're going to have an income to pay their rent or their mortgage. Billions of dollars of potential investment are stalled because no one wants to invest in British Columbia.
At the end of the day, for me, this is about transparency and accountability. It's about asking for a report that the minister admitted to this committee was finished and was sitting on her desk—the minister who promised an answer in the fall, who promised an answer in the winter and who promised an answer in the spring. Here we are at the end of April, and still we have no answer.
I would welcome the government providing an answer on this issue instead of reading from a report from 16 years ago. The people of this country and the people of my riding deserve a lot better.
I'd like to proceed to a vote so we can get the documents and see what they have to say. Then we can hopefully advise the department on an appropriate course of action moving forward.