Thanks, Mr. Chair. So all of this is being done in a very compressed time frame, of course, and I want to recognize that the regulator, OROGO, as it's called, the Office of the Regulator of Oil and Gas Operations, does produce an annual report. That's a good thing. This bill does contain a clause that would require the regulator, not just "may", the regulator "shall" within four months after the end of each fiscal year submit to the Minister a report on its activities, essentially.

What the purpose of this motion is, is to spell out what the content of that report might start to look like; and, in fact, some of these things are actually contained in the report that OROGO has voluntarily put together. So the way this was put together was we asked our law clerk to go through the bill to find out where clear permits, licenses, authorizations, decisions had been made with regard to oil and gas operations and put together that list for us, and that list was then provided to committee. We considered it. We felt that it was in the public interest to be more prescriptive in terms of the content of the annual report, just as we've done with a number of other bills that are before this House.

I guess it went back and forth between our department and our staff with the committee a few times. Unfortunately, we ran out of time. I wanted to bring this forward today so that it could receive consideration by the House, so that's the purpose of bringing this forward, and I am interested to hear what the Minister has to say about this more prescriptive list of what should be in the annual report. Thank you, Mr. Chair.