Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the minister and his officials for appearing.
I want to continue for a moment with the topic of the Navigable Waters Protection Act and the proposed amendments. First, allow me to say that I think it actually honours the work that was done by this committee. We spent a number of weeks working very diligently and, I would suggest, with a high degree of consensus on the direction in terms of informing the government of suggested changes to the NWPA.
I think the inclusion of this in the budget implementation act accentuates the priority of expediting the funds quickly for projects. I know that members in the House from various parties have stood to urge the government to move the stimulus forward quickly. I think this actually achieves that, so I think it's actually right to have it in the budget implementation act. I wouldn't want to hive it off now and delay it further.
I know that Mr. Bevington wasn't here for the committee at that particular time during some of that work. I don't know if you want to comment, perhaps for his benefit or for that of any of the new members here, on some of the recommendations the committee made that have now turned up as NWPA amendments.
I don't know if you want to handle that, Minister, or the officials.