Dennis Bevington at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

Thanks, Mr. Chair.

I wanted to touch on the wetlands as well, because over the last two years in Parliament we've heard much about how this present government has taken away the requirement of environmental assessment for farmers for drainage ditches. They talked about it quite a bit. I'm thinking to myself there are hundreds of thousands of farmers, and hundreds of thousands of drainage ditches. At what point do non-regulated drainage ditches add to the problem of wetland removals in this country?