Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to comment on what Mr. Sopuck and Mr. Warawa said.
Mr. Sopuck just said that industries with a significant presence in the rural regions were the first victims of environmental legislation. The opposite is happening. Environmental laws exist to protect the resources and ensure that the resource regions can survive and that the industries can continue to develop. The day we no longer have resources, companies will close their doors. That's the reality.
Here's another completely outmoded vision of development that makes people think that environmental legislation is an economic constraint. But it isn't. Environmental legislation exists to protect the resources and ensure that economic sectors, such as the forestry sector, can continue to develop. So I am opposed to this type of thinking. It isn't the intent of the bill or the meaning of sustainable development. I think that it involves a completely outmoded vision of development.