Thank you, Mr. Vanthuyne. The motion is on the floor and is being distributed. The motion is in order. To the motion. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Earlier in my opening comments, I mentioned that this is not a terribly well-used piece of legislation: four requests in 29 years, only one of which resulted in an investigation. I think that it is important that we give citizens tools to help protect the environment. This bill will help improve that, but we also have to do, I think, a much better job in communicating what sort of rights citizens have under the Environmental Rights Act and promote those rights and how people can follow up on them, whether it's requests for investigations, taking action themselves through the court system.

There are a number of things that people can do and follow up. They can be engaged and involved in the preparation of the statement of environmental values, review the State of the Environment Report. Hopefully, at some point in the future, we may have an environmental registry. This motion will ensure that the department, hopefully, will take a stronger role in promoting what is in the bill and the environmental rights that it creates so that people can exercise those rights. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed?

---Carried

Mr. Vanthuyne.