Mr. Speaker, I would like to address my question to the prime minister.
The federal government has up to 5,000 contaminated sites across Canada and it has no plan to clean them up.
The auditor general estimates a minimum price tag of $2.8 billion and further inaction will only increase these costs. PCBs, military sites, ports and harbours, government lands, old bases and dumps need to be cleaned up and the government has no idea where most of these sites are.
When will the government stop dragging its feet and stonewalling, clean up these sites and get Canadians back to work restoring our environment?