Environment committee  Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much, witnesses, for your patience. We are expecting there may be another disruption, and so I am going to start. We have a reduced quorum. There are only four of us at the table right now, but I expect other members will join us. I understand that we have agreed there will be seven minutes per witness for opening statements.

Environment committee  Wayne, the comment from the analyst is that it may have been referring to organics in Quebec through regulation and diverting those into other streams for composting and other energy uses. It might have been that. Anyway, you still have a minute and a half.

Environment committee  This has been an excellent panel with many good questions and discussions. Thank you to each of the witnesses for being here today. I think you've given us a lot of additional material that we'll be working to incorporate in our report. Members, we had advertised that we would go in camera for committee business today, but the official opposition asked us to defer that until Wednesday.

Environment committee  Thank you. Wayne, we'll go to you for your last five minutes.

Environment committee  Mr. Shields, welcome back to the committee. We haven't seen you for a while. It's always a pleasure to see you.

Environment committee  If you and Mr. Lobb want, I will give you five minutes for whatever questions you have for the panel.

Environment committee  Okay, let's do that. Mike, perhaps you can start, and any of your colleagues who want to jump in. We'll give you five minutes.

Environment committee  Then for the committee, we could each do a five-minute round per side, if you're interested in continuing and have any unanswered questions. If you feel that you've been satisfied, then we can end at this point. What's the will of the committee?

Environment committee  So you would take some time. Do you guys have anything that you would like to add? Wayne, do you want to do another one?

Environment committee  That takes us to the end of our formal round of questioning. I'm looking for direction from both the committee and our guests. Our invitation to our panellists was to be here until 5:15. I don't know if anybody is available. We're scheduled to go until 5:30. Does anybody need to leave right at 5:15, or if there is interest from the committee to continue to 5:30, would you be willing to stay?

Environment committee  We're out of time, but I will let one person make a brief response.

Environment committee  Mike, instead of getting an answer right now—

Environment committee  I'm just looking at the time. We'll go to Wayne for his final question. We do have a little bit of time on the clock and we may be able to go back for one more round, if there is interest from the committee. Wayne, over to you for your final three minutes.

Environment committee  Ben or Martin, there's a minute left, if you want it.

Environment committee  Mr. Bossio, you have six minutes.