Chair, it is my pleasure to be back with all of you on this committee, and to Richard and to Marc and to Paul, who I participated on this committee before, I am glad to be here. Thanks to my Conservative colleagues for keeping up the good fight on this committee.
Because I am substituting for Jeremy Patzer, I do want to move his motion at this time. I move:
That the committee invite the Minister of Natural Resources and officials to appear to consider the Main Estimates for a minimum of two hours, at their earliest convenience, but no later than May 14th, 2021.
Of course, that motion was put on notice and spoken to on March 22, 2021.
I think this is an important invitation. Probably there is no need to go in camera to discuss this aspect of your future committee business, although I understand why there would be a desire to block and delay the minister from appearing. It does seem to me, just from the point of view of an outsider and also as a person who was your friend and your colleague on this committee myself, that there is a—