Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Congratulations on your role. I look forward to working with everyone.
I would like this committee to debate the following motion so that we can refer it to the House: “Given that BC Ferries has announced that it will purchase four new full-size ferries from a Chinese state-owned company rather than from a proven Canadian shipbuilder such as Seaspan in north Vancouver, and given that the Liberal government is set to subsidize this purchase with a handout to BC Ferries, that it be reported to the House that the committee calls on the government to attach to its transfer payments to BC Ferries a common-sense condition of buying Canadian-built ships built by Canadian workers.”
If you like, I can read that in French as well.