Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm sure my arguments will convince the opposition to vote for this particular thing.
In 1990, when I started my master's of laws in environment and I wanted to save the world, it was a much different place than it is today. We have computers. Through the Internet we have an unlimited amount of computer information on the environment and what's happening in other jurisdictions, and we're able to communicate with people freely and widely very quickly. So things have changed dramatically over the past 20 years. It's been a long time.
Peggy might want to listen to this. A friend of mine worked for the National Round Table on the Environment this year, did the water report, was a Conservative candidate two federal elections ago, and worked with the Conservative government for two or three years.
But clearly we have Environment Canada, which performs the function the national round table at one time was handy to do, maybe in 1988 and a few years after that. They do an excellent job reporting to the government, and we have a lot of environmental groups around the world that I would suggest provide a lot of information, more than we need at this stage. We have all the information necessary today that's instantaneously shared across the Internet.
I'm hoping Mr. Mai was convinced by that “wanting to put a Conservative out of work” argument. You didn't get that one? Okay.
I think this is a great division and I'm going to support it fully and heartily.