Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, I was interested that you brought up EverWind. We had EverWind before the finance committee in pre-budget consultations. I asked the president of EverWind whether he developed any science with regard to the impact of both the offshore windmill locations and the transmission cables on the ocean floor, where they want to put them in the eastern shore off of Guysborough. He said no, none; there was no science. When I asked him if he had consulted with any fishing groups in the discussion of their project, he said no.
Do you believe it's an appropriate way for these organizations to operate to propose a policy that has absolutely no science conducted, in the area they want to do it in, on what it will do to marine species and to not talk to the local stakeholders who earn a living from the sea there?