I just would like to make one point. Mr. Sopuck was talking about the employment effects of environmental action, and Mr. Bigras mentioned that we need to protect the resources to protect the economy in rural areas. I'm wondering if Mr. Sopuck doesn't see the link between environmental action and job creation, whether it be in urban centres or rural centres, where, for example, a firm might have to invest more resources to conform with an environmental regulation.
For example, if it became illegal for mining companies to dump their tailings in lakes, thereby killing freshwater lakes, and instead they had to build proper impoundment areas, one would think that maybe that would contribute to employment in the area in the construction trades, for example.
That's the whole heart of sustainable development, as we understand it, which is that good environmental policy is good economic policy.