Thank you, Mr. Lewis, and thank you for your assistance on this bill as well. This has been a collaborative effort in the region.
That's an excellent point. Our area has a high degree of manufacturing. In fact, some of this area was originally forested, and when I talked to the port originally they called it “scrub brush”. It now has 200 of Canada's 500 endangered species, but it was originally forested.
Mr. Lewis, you're correct. When you look at the amount of agriculture we have, it's high-industry. Mr. Epp knows as well that, with the agriculture industry that we have with greenhouses, it takes up a lot of space and resources.
This is one of our last few opportunities to bind these elements together. The reason why I think it's different from the other proposals that are out there is that it's on the international border and we have a diversity of species. We paid a big price with environmental diseases, high rates of cancer. It's all been well identified by Health Canada. We get a lot of smog and other types of pollution from the United States, so this is our way of pushing back. Also, this is for young people to see that they can participate in their ecosystem development.