Thank you, Mr. Chair.
There has been some talk about the regulatory reform plan, and I would like to talk about that area. I think we all have heard--I don't want to use the words “horror stories”--about the time required for anyone wanting to develop a mine or other type of natural resource harvest to get through the regulatory process.
Something else I'm hearing that I rather like is this talk about equivalence with the provinces from the natural resources department. Could you just give me a little thumbnail sketch of how that's going, and whether this equivalence idea could apply to the types of things that we would talk about with this department?
Mr. Chair, I'll also give Ms. Gallant the second half of my time, if I may.