Indeed, I would encourage the parliamentary secretary to read the witnesses' testimony. It is true that some witnesses, such as the Shipping Federation of Canada, said that the bill should be put aside. However, some others, especially those he is quoting, said that they want some restrictions and amendments. Our responsibility as parliamentarians is to amend the bill and not to behave as the government did in the Senate when they decided not to study a bill on climate change and killed it.
On November 24th, 2010. See this statement in context.