I wanted to make it clear to my colleagues here that our critic for this bill has gone through, as I believe everyone here had the opportunity to go through, extensive consultation with the government on what would be an acceptable degree of understanding on this particular bill so that it could move forward and this could be completed. Now, I respect what my critic has done, and I am supporting what he has done here.
I have my point of view on some of these things. I use Gatineau Park regularly. I cycle there. I recognize that there is a multiplicity of uses there, because I've been through that park many, many times.
I see that to say you can separate human use from ecological integrity is not possible; you must include a variety of uses in the park. That's clear. The other day when I was cycling there, I came around a corner and I just about ran over a black bear. The only way I would not have run over that black bear and maintained its ecological integrity was if they refused to have me in the park.
So I say there are priorities. I don't want to give up the priority of having a bicycle path through the park so that I can protect the ecological integrity of the bear. I want to coexist. I yelled at the bear and it got out of my way, so I was pleased about that.
The park is a multiple-use area, and you have to be sensitive to that as well.