Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Deputy Prime Minister.
Yesterday, the auditor general again pointed out that the federal government has still not identified all the contaminated federal sites, that it has no overall plan for doing so, and that the eventual costs to the public of decontaminating these sites are also not known. The auditor general is concerned because of the health, safety and environmental risks of such a situation, not to mention the potential impact on the public purse.
How can the government explain that it has still not found ways of listing, identifying and clarifying the degree of contamination of federal sites, given the health and environmental risks associated with such a situation?