Mr. Speaker, indeed, I did participate. I am the NDP vice-chair of that committee.
One of the big things that has not been present enough in this conversation, if the member will permit me some criticism of the committee and its study, is indigenous voices. We did not hear from any indigenous witnesses at committee. I submitted some recommendations on that. If we are going to find a good way forward, we need to be engaging indigenous people on both sides of the border. That is going to be really important to finding a lasting solution.
One of the things that Canadians and Canadian governments, in particular, need to absorb when we look at natural resource projects is that there is no longer a path and there never should have been a path to undertaking large natural resource projects without meaningful engagement and the consent of the people on whose traditional territories these projects are being built.