Mr. Speaker, I only want to say that this third reading debate is perhaps the last and only opportunity we will have to speak on Bill C-56. The Committee on Environment, is touring the country and we realized that the bill raises great concerns. Business people and provinces are worried and provincial environment departments are not sure how this legislation works. All they see is overlap and duplication.
The message here to Quebec and the other provinces, which will have the same problem, is that it will cost an arm and a leg to administer. We have to save everywhere, I think, not only in the budgets and things like that. All departments must do their part to save and reduce the current deficit, and the Department of the Environment is no exception.
The Department of the Environment should perhaps better administer its budget and avoid overlap and duplication of services that already exist in other jurisdictions, namely the provinces. This bill will not work. It will cause economic and legal problems. It will be awful for Canada's and especially Quebec's economic development.
These are the simple comments I wanted to make.