Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of the Environment. We have
discovered from reading the budget that the government is proposing to require the provinces pay for environmental assessments undertaken by the federal government.
Not only is this government persisting in maintaining costly duplications, it is adding more this time by asking Quebec to pay for services it does not need, because it already has its own, equally effective tools.
Does the Minister of the Environment not realize that, by asking the provinces and other interested parties to assume the costs of environmental assessments, she is forcing Quebec taxpayers to pay the federal government for a service they have already paid the Government of Quebec for?