Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of the Environment.
The minister wants Canadians to believe he stands for protecting the environment but Canadians are rather concerned with the sale of the Candu reactors to China because no environmental assessment has been done. It even looks like the government is going to get sued on this point.
Can the minister explain why a project of this nature that is funded by the government and is carried out by federal authority does not need a federal environmental assessment?