Mr. Speaker, I state in the strongest possible terms my objection to the fact that some 484 acres of pristine crown lands on the Royal Roads property in my riding of Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca are on the table for future development.
The Department of National Defence has already paid the city of Colwood $198,000 for a buy-in for 6,000 residential equivalency units of trunk sewer capacity with an application for a further 2,000 units. Plans for the development of the lands and the property are already under way by the Treasury Board.
Given this fact we deserve to know what are the plans for Royal Roads, who has been consulted and what is the time frame for this development.
Since April 1994 I have continued to advocate a plan put forth by the Royal Roads committee that I started which would see the development of only 60 acres of the land with the rest held forever, in perpetuity. Rest assured I will fight tooth and nail alongside my constituents to ensure that these beautiful lands are not bulldozed and concretized in the name of development.