I do not know. The hon. member for Kingston and the Islands has put it very eloquently by asking why we did not do this some time ago because the product was banned in the United States a long time ago.
I do not know. Of course, for almost a decade, we had a government that was very much like the Reform Party in front of us, namely the Tory government, and that probably did not help.
Today, we have the opportunity to right this wrong by adopting measures to clean up the environment. I know that the former Minister of the Environment, the hon. member for Lac-Saint-Jean, who is a great environmentalist, will want to vote in favour of this bill, as will all other parliamentarians concerned about cleaning up our country's environment.
In conclusion, I ask all my colleagues to vote in favour of the bill tabled by the hon. Minister of the Environment and against the amendment put forward by the hon. member for Calgary North, who is once again demonstrating the Reform Party's systematic
and systemic efforts to block any worthwhile initiative aimed at cleaning up this country's environment.