Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is another amendment from the Green Party of Canada to protect the basic tenets of this bill for environmental protection in Canada.
Again, because I haven't said it in the last several days in clause-by-clause, the splitting of the schedule and removing the word “toxic”, I firmly believe—as a formerly practising environmental lawyer who has worked on this bill since 1988—that this will threaten the constitutional underpinnings of the entire act.
Some people think that as a Cassandra in this movement, I draw satisfaction from being proven right. I would much rather be proven wrong. If this act is struck down by the courts because of what you're doing here today, I will be very sad, but at least you will have been warned.