Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of the Environment.
On December 14, in reply to a question about some land in Vancouver belonging to the Squamish band which the federal government has been leasing, the minister said the following: "I made arrangements to inform the band that future payments after this fiscal year should cease and desist".
Will the minister confirm that the lease payments which already cost Canadian taxpayers $26 million have in fact "ceased and desisted", as she promised us on December 14, since officials from her own department say the opposite is true?