I want to thank Charlie for his support of the amendment.
To the Liberal MPs, with all due respect to their assurances—and I thank the officials—we're of course here to do our jobs as elected representatives. This is the place where we need to fix bills and ensure they achieve the outcomes we want.
I thank Charlie for his support of this very straightforward common-sense amendment that talks to protecting the livelihoods, the businesses and the generational family investments of fishers and lobstermen in offshore areas. It would ensure that in this legislation, there is consideration of cumulative environmental impacts and potentially negative impacts, or at least that those will be mitigated, both for the environmental stewardship of sensitive marine and ecological areas and for preserving the livelihoods and businesses in these sectors, which are so important to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.
I thank the officials, certainly, for their input, but I think it would be shocking to the people of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador if the Liberal MPs on this committee did not support this amendment.