Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, honourable Minister and your assistants here today. Thank you, Deputy Minister. It's good to see all of you. Thank you for your work on behalf of our great country.
Minister, Parliament treated Bill C-5 like an emergency, so we passed it in essentially 10 days last June. You and your government told us that national interest projects just couldn't wait, yet eight months after royal assent, the schedule 1 list of designated projects, the entire engine of the act, is still at zero.
You've already referred to two full tranches of projects at the Major Projects Office in your comments, including the Montreal Contrecœur terminal. Why has not a single one been formally designated? When will you stop referring projects and actually sign the first conditions document so shovels can hit the ground?