Mr. Speaker, I see that the truth is hard to take. The member made a speech and did not even explain his bill. He simply attacked us while I described specific problems that Bill C-56 would create with the provinces. And he is perfectly aware of them.
Also, the member for Lachine-Lac-Saint-Louis, having himself been a provincial minister of the environment, knows all about the BAPE. He knows perfectly well how it works and should have advised the minister since he knew that the BAPE was managing perfectly well in Quebec. We did not need this federal overlap on environmental reviews. To me the member has just proven that he is totally blinded by his own partisanship and his centralizing idea of federalism.
As for the Irving Whale , I was quoting a newspaper when I spoke about it a moment ago. I did not make this up. It was written by journalists who felt very badly served by the Minister of the Environment who did not know the facts at all. So if members opposite will not take some criticism and go back and do their homework, this government has a problem.