Thanks, Mr. Chair. I don't want to prolong this, but this is the age-old debate of Regular MLAs trying to ensure that there is an opportunity for the public to have some engagement or opportunity to comment on draft regulations in another post-devolution bill moving forward.

We have raised this issue numerous times in the House. Cabinet has not developed any kind of framework or approach for this, and we are trying to respond to what we heard in committee from Indigenous governments, from municipal governments, and NGOs about their interest and willingness to try to work collaboratively with the departments on regulations moving forward. Why this keeps coming back is a lot of the details in these bills have been shunted off to regulations that are going to come at some future point in time, and Cabinet just does not want to open that door to allow for public comment on regulations. I don't understand what the problem is. This wording is virtually identical to what already exists in the oil and gas legislation that we now have in place or are about to have in place as a result of the federal government having these provisions in their legislation, but our government that talks about open government and being transparent and accountable does not want to give our residents that kind of opportunity.

If the Minister has anything else he would like to say about how his department intends to engage Indigenous governments, the public, and NGOs on regulations move forward, I would love to hear it. There was a commitment made at clause-by-clause review committee, by departmental staff, that that was going to happen. I did not hear it from the Minister, and it's not required by statute, so all of this again is at the complete and utter discretion of Cabinet moving forward, and I just do not think that that is a good place to be. That is not what our residents have asked of us, and this is another attempt to do that in the context of this bill. Thank you, Mr. Chair.