Mr. Speaker, if the minister is serious about inspections, she might want to listen to this point.
On February 26 one of the minister's officials stated when referencing what happens to a CEPA regulation in Ontario, “If we do not have the resources, then it basically sits in a file until an investigator is freed up, and if an investigator is not freed up over a period of a year or two years, then the file just gets closed”.
Canadians want to know how many broken environmental regulations end up in a file that gets closed.
Why does the minister even bother having environmental regulations if she does not intend on having anyone to enforce them?