Mr. Speaker, since I became the Minister of the Environment I have signed environmental agreements with every province including the province of Alberta.
I would ask whether the public believes there is a national role to play for a national government. When we are talking, for example about automobiles, does it make sense to have 10 standards for 10 provinces? Or would it make much more sense to the Canadian consumer to have one national standard for vehicle emissions? There is a way of doing things logically, not through the knee-jerk decentralization being proposed by the leader of the third party.