Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am impressed, once again, by the quality of our witnesses today. Ms. Dowdeswell,
you spoke about lack of leadership and lack of scientific rigour. You talked about the lack of monitoring. And I agree. I myself went out in the field, and that's the first thing you realize. You have the federal government. You have the provincial government. Some in the industry are saying that we should get our act together. There's a role for both to play, of course, while respecting jurisdiction and conventions.
This will sound like a political question, but it's not. Since you feel that the monitoring process is not that accurate right now, if you were able to take a decision...? There is more and more productivity. There are more and more projects. I'm against a moratorium, for the record. Do you think we should slow down new projects and wait for those monitoring processes, for the sake of quality of life or for the sake of the industry itself, so that they might not have a bigger problem in the future? How do you perceive that? With your round table, with your panel, you had those kinds of issues to look at. If the scientific data is not all accurate, of course....
I also met Mr. Schindler, who had some of his data. Like him or not, he's scientific, and he has credentials. I think the best way to address credentials is with other credentials.
How do you perceive monitoring versus new projects?