Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to the speech by the hon. member for Laurentides. I noticed that in her speech she took a shot at our present Minister of the Environment on her handling of the Irving Whale .
This is a very peculiar criticism because the present minister is the only minister in over two decades who has taken any action at all on the Irving Whale. She met with the fishermen and residents of Prince Edward Island and Îles-de-la-Madeleine .She met with scientists and found the money to remove the hazard from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Yet she is under criticism because she is actually doing something about this environmental hazard.
I am curious to know what the hon. member would do. Would she remove the Irving Whale ? Would she pump it out? Would she leave it there? What would she do? She seems to have become involved in this project only after the member for Bonaventure-Îles-de-la-Madeleine got some publicity on it. If the minister is not doing a good job on this particular issue, I am curious to know what the member would do in her position.