Under the Navigable Waters Protection Act right now, the only thing that holds back
but despite the wishes of certain municipal and provincial elected officials, they simply do not have the ability to carry out environmental assessments. Thank God for the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Thank God there is a Federal Department of the Environment here in Ottawa that is doing its work to protect the environment.
I will give you the opportunity to say that your government has no intention of streamlining or reducing, under the new provisions and regulations, the measures to protect the environment, as provided by federal legislation. If, today, you give us the guarantee that there is absolutely no intent on the part of the federal government to reduce environmental protection, I will be the first to congratulate you. Please go ahead.