Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to assure the honourable Member that there has been quite a lot of work done toward a new Mining Safety Act. Good submissions have been received from a number of interested parties about the previous bill which had been tabled for public comment. I have also received a lot of good advice about good people who could serve on this committee.

Mr. Speaker, as I said, there is one fundamental issue that I am trying to resolve. I hope that I can resolve it as soon as today or tomorrow, one way or the other, so that I can report back to the House either that the committee can proceed or that there will be another course of action, if it will be required. So if I resolve this outstanding issue satisfactorily in the next few days, I expect to get the committee up and running fairly quickly, although later than I had hoped. Thank you.