I'd like to dispel the fact that this is a jobs versus environment conversation. I think sustainable, smart development is something that can happen. It doesn't mean a race to the bottom and trying to match the lowest standards wherever they exist in the world. I think we can uphold the standard in Canada that makes us proud and allows us to sustain our healthy communities for the future.
A visitor from Germany came last week to look at Lake Winnipeg with me. That's a dying lake. It's the tenth-largest freshwater lake in the world. He was aghast that Canada, which he thought was the leader in freshwater, would have such a degraded water source that covers a million square kilometres right in the middle of our country.