As well, when we look at moving ahead in the future, we can't simply look at...and it's something that I'd say we should take very careful interest in when we look at how we're constructing infrastructure programs, how we're moving ahead with stimulus packages, not to move us into a situation where our economy is less green rather than more green.
Clearly we see that across the country, the demand that we move our economy in a direction that can leave us, when we come out of the recession, in a position to have a better and stronger country. Whenever we think of standing back on our ability to protect our natural environment for the development of economics, we are taking a step backwards. There are many projects that we can go ahead with in this country that don't have environmental characteristics attached to them, that don't need those types of changes to environmental laws to get them in place.
Quite clearly, this is a direction in which we need leadership. Certainly by putting this bill forward in the fashion your government has, it doesn't allow us an opportunity to put forward those arguments. And by not putting forward those arguments, we're failing in our duty as parliamentarians.