Thank you, Madam Chair.
This is the science and research committee. What I'm hearing from the members opposite relates much more to government policy rather than an intense investigation of the research on which that policy is potentially based. It is, in my view, not appropriate for study in this particular committee. It potentially could go to another committee that looks more broadly at industry or something like that.
This committee has, to date—and I speak advisedly because I've been on it for a number of years.... We ask for witnesses who are experts in scientific research to come in front of this committee to give us their findings. We create recommendations in relation to those findings. The way this motion has been presented, in my view, it simply does not fit within the mandate of this committee.