Mr. Chair, this amendment seeks to delete paragraph (e), which grants the power to establish classes of works. What surprises me in this sentence introduced in the budget bill is that it gives the government, a minister, extraordinary powers allowing him not only to specify the classes of works that would not be subject to the legislation, but also to establish navigable waters. Mr. Mulcair was saying that this goes to the heart of the attack against the Navigable Waters Protection Act and I fully agree with him on this. This very short sentence obviously entails major consequences.
We are in favour of the amendment.