Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our witnesses for being here today.
This must be an infuriating situation, and after listening to your opening statements, I can only imagine what it would be like to know that this contamination exists, that your communities are exposed to it on a daily basis and that the government has known about it for a long time and didn't tell you. I know that conversations about the divestment of the dock have been going on since 2013, but this issue really hit the news at the beginning of October, I believe, to the point where Minister Anand, early in her new mandate as Minister of Transport, flew to the community to discuss it. I'm sorry; I got that wrong. She hasn't been to the community. The previous minister had been to the community.