Madam Speaker, I wish to table a petition today signed by some 3,000 residents of Pointe-du-Lac and environs. Pointe-du-Lac is located in the federal riding of Trois-Rivières.
This petition asks Parliament to halt immediately all testing of explosives at the National Defence Proof and Experimental Test Establishment located at Nicolet-Sud in the riding of Richelieu. According to the petitioners, this testing is causing shock waves that are damaging to both property and people and therefore is harming the environment of the people in the surrounding municipalities and in Lac-Saint-Pierre.