Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As a Member of the Legislature, just a very brief comment to express my appreciation as a member of the Standing Committee on Social Programs for the involvement and participation of NAPEGG, the association that has been behind this legislation and for which this legislation is about. I think it should be noted, in one of our public hearings we had an entire set of past presidents of the association, about six or seven of them. I don't want to name all of them, but I think that was a real show of interest and showed the history and the effort that went into the association to make this legislation passable. We are all aware of the efforts in an association like this, especially all the volunteer work that has to go on for these professionals, engineers, geologists, and for those people who really work towards and spend a lot of their private time and personal time to put this legislation into place and make it possible. Of course, it's the government that does that but without their effort, I am sure it would not be possible. The legislation seeks to modernize a body and the work and give them more powers to do what any organization or any professional licensing body and the organization that oversees the profession would want to do.
So I just want to make a brief comment to acknowledge that and to also thank the Minister for pushing this through. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.