I appreciate your ruling, Chair, but I also appreciate the comment. I hear the echo of Sydney tar ponds. It was in those dark 13 years that the Liberals said, “Just give us one more term and we will get things done.” But then they got a new leader who said, “What a mess we made of the environment. Why didn't we get it done?”
The first thing I did as parliamentary secretary was go to the Sydney tar ponds. The hesitation of Cape Breton on the environment--