Thank you.
To quote you back, Mr. Minister, you've said “We have been clear: projects will not proceed unless and until they have been proven safe for our workers, for our communities, and for the environment.” Your counterpart in Environment, I believe, was one who initiated the study on fracking, and that report has been very clear that there has not been enough work on monitoring and assessing whether or not fracking is safe. So there we have one sector that is continuing to proceed where it has not been proven to be safe.
We have other sectors, for example in the oil sands, where recent studies, including by the federal government, have shown that there may be significant impacts on the environment, and yet the government is continuing to allow those projects to proceed.
I'm wondering what measures you are anticipating taking to actually start delivering on that. The most important is the report on the gateway that, of course, has countless recommendations for work that needs to be done before they can determine how they can proceed safely. So can we anticipate then that there will be no approval for the gateway project until it is absolutely proven safe for tanker traffic, for recovery of oil spills and so forth?
I have personal experience with the failed federal-provincial response to major spills with bunker C, of which 200,000 cubic litres still lie in my lake after a derailment. I'm hoping you can give assurance that we're not going to be giving more and more approvals until, in fact, these dangerous projects are proven safe.