Mr. Speaker, my apologies for getting up prematurely. It was such a good question from my friend that I could not resist it.
To echo basically what my colleague, the hon. member for Elk Island, just said, the reason we are asking for an independent study is that the Deputy Prime Minister brought forth a slew of papers, all
of which were from members of the Automobile Manufacturers Association. They are very interested party in this debate, but in fact they are one side of this debate.
What we can do is determine whether or not the studies that have been put forth are in fact legitimate, sound, scientifically based studies. If they are, then we should believe them. If they are not, if there is any question whatsoever, then we definitely need to have an independent third party to do the study. We cannot have a member or a group as intimately associated with the question at hand-in fact a combatant in this debate-to decide what is true and what is not. That is why we in this party are asking for an independent review, an independent group to do this. Perhaps the National Research Council or some other group could do this. The important point to remember is that it must be an independent party that is not intimately associated with either the Ethyl Corporation or the automobile manufacturers association.