This morning's Ottawa Sun and Toronto Sun reported that the House of Commons Speaker at the time, John Fraser, sent a letter in 1990 to all cabinet ministers formally requesting that they cease idling their cars. The RCMP and the Commons security were asked to enforce the edicts. “It is terribly important that we lead the way on this issue,” wrote Fraser in a letter dated June 6, 1990.
There's a letter in existence, and I am asking you to eliminate all unnecessary idling of vehicles. If you idle to warm it up, that's not unnecessary. We're talking about the ones just idling there waiting.
I hope I have the support of the committee, but if Monsieur Guimond would feel better having the information
from Mr. Fraser, we can ask James to get that for us. Then we could have a look at it at our next meeting.