Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of the Environment.
Last week the minister reintroduced the Canadian Environmental Protection Act and stated in the House that her department had sufficient resources to deal with every element of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act in its current form. Yet her own deputy minister stated in committee that there were not enough resources to enforce all the existing regulations.
How does the minister square what she said in the House last week to what her deputy minister has said? How does the minister expect her department to enforce a new act when it does not have the resources to enforce the existing act?