Thank you very much.
Yes, that’s what’s frustrating. We want to know what the amendments are because the Minister clearly has something in mind.
To my colleagues opposite who are doing the exercise in good faith, this is unfortunately not what the minister has in mind. In question period, on October 6, the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard said that the purpose of the consultation on the Navigation Protection Act was—and I will read the quote in English:
...not simply how to cut and paste the protections that were in the previous legislation that was deleted by the Conservatives, but how we could further strengthen them....
You are telling the witnesses that you want to keep what was good. But that is not at all in line with the intent of the bill.
In closing, Madam Chair, in light of the testimony we have heard this morning, I would like to move a motion as follows:
Whereas the municipality associations have confirmed that they have not received complaints and have not requested that bodies of water be added, I ask that the Committee immediately cease its study of the Navigation Protection Act.