This is the almost insane situation we find ourselves in. We're the architects of our own problem, in that our irrational affinity for asbestos has led to the contamination of virtually every public building in the country, and there's no corresponding funding for us to remediate this contamination. Yet this committee sits poised to exacerbate this problem by promoting the export of this same asbestos all around the world.
Now, it's morally and ethically reprehensible, in the words of Keith Spicer, who now lives in Paris. It's also irrational and it's economically stupid, in my view, Mr. Chair—without using too strong a word—that when the Department of Natural Resources is faced with a budget freeze imposed upon it.... I just wonder what cutting they will do in order to preserve the corporate welfare they intend to hand to the Jeffrey mine, represented in this case by the lobbyist firm called the Chrysotile Institute, Clément Godbout and his thug friends—the very friends who call the National Institute of Public Health “a little band of Taliban”.... I believe their noses are out of joint.
The one single research paper that they've done, by Dr. David Bernstein, at the cost of $1 million—the best science money can buy—is being—