Mr. Speaker, the federal government has representatives in Berlin today to engage in more talk about the need to improve the way that we as nations respond to the world's growing environmental crisis. At the same time here in Canada the media is speculating about the possible dismantling of Environment Canada because the department has become ineffective in dealing with our own domestic environmental problems.
Can the government confirm today that it will stand with the same political will to strengthen the federal role on domestic environmental issues as it has shown in the defence of turbot conservation and in support of the country's well-meaning but nonetheless meaningless position at the Berlin conference?