Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to respond to some of the comments the Government House Leader made. This bill is not requesting public disclosure of royalty information, which is already something you can access through the federal legislation, although there's some issues in how that's reported, and -- but the Standing Committee on Economic Development working with the department wants to be part of that royalty review. I'm sure the Indigenous governments and the intergovernmental council want to be part of the royally review and the work ITI is doing. But right now, the government is not allowed to share royalty information with Indigenous governments or standing committees.

I don't know how either of those partners are supposed to be meaningfully engaged in that process if we can't know the royalties for projects, Mr. Speaker. I don't view this as some sort of step that's going to completely change the regulatory framework or completely change the disclosure of royalties. The Member's bill is not asking for public disclosure. I think that step would be best done through the processes that the ITI is currently conducting. But to ask that information be shared with Regular members and Indigenous governments as part of the review is not too much an ask.

And furthermore, the government can simply go to the royalty payers and ask for consent to share that information right now. And if they do that, then this whole bill would be pointless. But to date, we do not have that information, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.