Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all the witnesses who have made themselves available to participate in this study.
Let me say, as a member of Parliament in Canada who represents a major oil and gas riding, whose future is completely dependent on the successful construction of major energy infrastructure, I thank you as a person who is of indigenous descent myself, being part Ojibway. I thank you as a person who represents oil and gas workers in northeast Alberta and nine indigenous communities, both first nation and Métis, and whose businesses and livelihoods and futures are dependent on oil and gas development and the construction of major energy projects in Canada. I thank you.
I do, however, regret, Mr. Chair, that I want to move my motion that I tabled on Friday, October 19, 2018.