Mr. Speaker, the Innu held a protest on Parliament Hill last Saturday to denounce the recommendations of the environmental assessment panel reviewing low level flights in Labrador and Northern Quebec.
The Bloc Quebecois joins the Innu in denouncing the contradictory recommendations of the panel who admits in its report the need for further study of the impacts on the health of human and animal populations, yet recommends that twice as many
flights be allowed, thereby jeopardizing the fragile balance of the Arctic environment.
This review offhandedly casts aside the legitimate concerns of those who face daily the stress caused by such flights. Under these circumstances, the Canadian government must flatly reject this report and start a new scientific process which, this time, will take into account the demands of the environmentalists and the local people.