This is where I'll interject, Mr. Minister, with all respect. In 2016 I submitted an Order Paper question, which your government answered, and your signature is on it. In that question, one of the sections, section (b), was this: What harms or proof of harm to fish and fish habitat, attributed to the previous government changes to these two acts, exist? I'm referring to the Fisheries Act and the Navigable Waters Act. The answer to that was “The department has not been either resourced or mandated to conduct this type of comprehensive monitoring and has not undertaken specific monitoring or analysis to compare the impacts of the changes to the act.”
You had no proof of any harm. You could not provide it, even when I asked for it in an Order Paper question. There was no proof of any harm from the previous changes. Now you've embarked on a 60-plus page bill chasing ghosts. How do you consider that to be efficient use of parliamentary time?