Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of the Environment, and I add that this is not our first question on the environment.
Yesterday, the Auditor General of Canada painted a very sorry picture of the federal government's management of dangerous waste. The government has reallocated over a third of the budget of $150 million intended for pollution management. It has dumped 24 highly contaminated sites onto the provinces. The minister may well speak of orphan sites, but the provinces will be the ones ending up with them. Furthermore, the federal government has provided for no additional funds to clean up the contaminated federal sites that remain.
How does the Minister of the Environment explain that, for lack of new agreements, she in fact unilaterally dumped total responsibility for 24 highly contaminated sites onto the shoulders of the provinces, when human health and the environment are at risk, according to the auditor general.