Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. I just want to respond to a couple items I heard there. I believe this is within the purview of the legislature. Part of our job -- part of why I got elected was to make sure that this government is more transparent and more accountable moving forward, and that's what I tried to do over eight years.
Plus, I think this is simply responding to some of the concerns and issues we heard as a standing committee about the forest superintendent having some new authority but no duty to do any of it. So how do we know if the forest superintendent's actually doing these things? Well, we have -- you know, an annual report is one way to find out. So that's why this was added in.
As to the details of this, about it being vague, well, it's no more vague than, you know, roman numeral three under (a) here, any monitoring under section -- subsection 26(1). How is that any more vague than -- or sorry, how's that -- you know, how's that any clearer than adding research activities? I just don't get it. So this is not vague. This is saying that the forest superintendent has to report on the research that's conducted pursuant to 15(3)(b). Not any other research. And it's to be a summary, that's all. So this response to what we heard increases transparency, accountability. The Minister, a few minutes ago, when the Minister was in the witness table, said that he was okay with this. Now he's saying he's not. I don't know what's going on here, but I believe this is in the public interest to increase transparency and accountability about what the forest superintendent does. And I think it's a good thing in the public interest to add these three items, so I will support it. Thank you, Madam Chair.