—deleterious substances put into their water, destroying their swimmable water, or destroying fisheries and fish habitat. You shouldn't claim that there is too much red tape to deal with those people's voices. It's very important that this quasi-criminal statute protect every Canadian, whether they are in Manitoba, Ontario, or B.C., and no province should be able to put forward its own exemptions such that it would take away the right to fishable waters.
This legislation was put in place in the early 1970s as a result of many damages that went on in the 1950s and 1960s. We learned from it. The federal level had powers, criminal and fisheries. They joined the two together to create sections 35 and 36. It's not the time, in 2016, to undermine that with arguments about jurisdiction. This act protects every Canadian and gives everyone the right to clean fisheries. There is no fishery, no matter how small the pond or how big the ocean, that is exempt from this act. I wouldn't want it to be so.