Mr. Speaker, if the hon. member wants to get into semantics, I noticed that in his speech he never once mentioned shipbuilding, fisheries or veterans. He talked about the environment. The reality is that the government authorized the midwater trawl off the coast of Prince Edward Island. Only an insane person would allow that type of fishing activity in those sensitive grounds.
Also on shipbuilding, the shipbuilding industry has been asking for years, along with industry and labour, the two groups together, for accelerated capital allowance and structured financing for up to a five year period. This is business and labour asking the government to do that. If we were to do that, our yards could then be competitive internationally. We still have not received a commitment from the government to do that.
He talked about Advantage Canada. What about advantage for veterans in the country? The government made three distinct promises and broke them all: the claw back on their pensions under SISIP, the VIP promise that the Prime Minister made to a widow of a veteran, and the Agent Orange--