I live next to a national park with about 43,000 square kilometres of land that's held in perpetuity for Canada. Under the laws of Canada, then, the minister tables the—I think this is a good step up from national park designation of management plans. If we were to take the principle that everything that happened on national land had to go through the Parliament of Canada and the Senate for approval, this would be a very difficult process.
When you look at what the government is proposing here—and I know the NDP critic for this particular subject has given me instructions to support this—I see the logic of it because it does give a higher degree of national approval requirements than under the National Parks Act, which is land that is controlled by the federal government completely, right across this whole country.
I think this is fair. I see it as a fair amendment that provides a greater degree of participation by this Parliament in that decision, compared to the amount of decision-making this Parliament is entitled to, to very vast tracts of land in my jurisdiction.