Mr. Speaker, I rise today in the House to express my concern regarding the appointment of the environmental secretariat to Montreal. How can a government that claims to be fair, honest and open on the one hand turn around and admit openly that a major government decision was made through partisan politics of the past?
I would like to state in this House that the city of Edmonton would have been an excellent host for the environmental secretariat. The city of Edmonton met the original requirements and therefore should have been a front runner, yet it was not.
The west wants in. We want the federal government to stop pandering to the wants of one region over another and start treating all provinces as equals.
I call on the government to reconsider the decision to establish the environmental secretariat in Montreal.