Mr. Speaker, I am pretty sure I will not be around for another century. Seriously, such a bill raises concerns. I think that the fisheries minister had a chance to redo his homework, and to make sure that his bill would not once again interfere in the jurisdictions of other departments, such as the environment department, or overlap other federal legislation, such as the Endangered Species Bill, or the Environmental Assessment Act. Why create a statute that overlaps others? It does not make any sense.
As I was saying earlier, we do our homework in Quebec. I think that protection of the environment is a responsibility, not a question of law. It is our future and that of our children. I think we have a duty to protect it. We must also try to administer it effectively. It is all very fine and well to make laws, but how will they be administered? When a bill of this sort is tabled, there must be an assurance that it can be administered. I am telling you it will be hell.
Even on the environment committee we had problems during discussions with witnesses from Fisheries and Oceans, because there is a conflict of jurisdiction. There will be more problems because now there is discretionary power. We will have many more problems, and I will tell you that the more trouble we have reaching agreement, the more the process will be held up and the more the environment jeopardized.