Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
As you know, I gave a notice of motion on this a week or so ago. Here is the motion.
In light of the deep concern expressed by every member of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources with respect to the impact the current economic crisis is having on key resource sectors, I move that the committee ask the natural resources department to provide the committee, through the clerk, with updates that contain the number of job losses or job gains in the following sectors--mining, forestry, energy; and that the clerk circulate these reports to the members of the committee, and that the first report should be delivered to the clerk on April 1, 2009, followed by reports on June 1, August 1, October 1, and December 1, 2009.