Mr. Speaker, I would like to express a concern of the NDP caucus, the Canadian Labour Congress and others about discussions that are apparently taking place within government about a project or initiative called "Waiving Compliance with Regulatory Requirements".
Many people are very concerned about extending more and more discretion to ministers to waive compliance with certain labour and environmental regulations with respect to certain projects or applications by companies.
I call on the Minister of Human Resources Development and others to scrap this project now. There is enough leeway in the regulatory regimes now. We do not need any more deregulation than we have had already.