Thank you very much, Chair. I am happy to be here.
Thank you, Ministers, for both being here today.
Minister Lebel, I was really interested in your comments earlier, and I was hoping that you would have taken more time to explain all the great work that you have done. I know that we could be here for hours, as you said, and I would certainly be very interested to hear the entire list of everything you've accomplished so far. It certainly has been a lot, so congratulations on that front.
I do want to ask you a couple of questions. One is on the Navigable Waters Protection Act. I know our friends opposite keep claiming that it's about the environment, and we don't see the word “environment” once appearing in the act. Could you please help my friends opposite and explain...? I'm feeling very generous today, and I just want the members opposite to come to an understanding on why this has nothing to do with the environment.
Maybe the language we've been using up until now has been maybe just too difficult for them to understand. Perhaps you could just help them out, in very plain, simple language, in understanding why this not about the environment.