Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to, once again, thank all the witnesses here with us.
Thank you for the work you are doing on the ground, especially in British Columbia.
Mr. Chair, we know B.C. has already been impacted by forest fires this 2024 season. This is why, colleagues, I want to use my time in this meeting to move a motion I distributed earlier that, given Canadians and indigenous peoples experienced extreme weather events and pollution in 2023, including but not limited to wildfires that occurred coast to coast, from the Okanagan and Shuswap to Tantallon area; high poor air quality indexes across the country; flooding in Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec; and industrial waste impacting communities or regions, such as the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation or Abitibi-Témiscamingue—