Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Transport.
A rare occurrence: last Friday the Minister of Transport managed to gain unanimity, but it was against him. When he announced the federal withdrawal from police services in ports from Vancouver to Halifax, including Montreal and Quebec, there was a general hue and cry against his method of unilaterally announcing, without any impact study, that this withdrawal would take effect before next fall.
How could the minister have presented a so-called new model of port policing without reaching any agreement with the provinces concerned?