Thank you, Chair. Thank you, witnesses, for appearing today. Your very informative presentations are greatly appreciated.
I might as well start with Mr. Zindler, because I guess we're on a roll with him anyway.
As we go through the study, I have my suspicions where we might go with this, or where the government is headed.
I want to talk more about the set-up of the EIA. You mentioned that it was just plainly a data collection agency and had no regulatory power and that type of thing. Maybe you can expand upon that a bit more and tell us how the agency, to the best of your knowledge, functions separately from the government, or from the legislature as well.