Mr. Speaker, the hon. member spoke at the beginning of his debate about hope, and at the end he also spoke of hope. How much hope do we have in the government?
I listen to this party every day which talks about the obligations of the government and the patronage appointments. Now we are allowing another agency with a chief executive office to be created by this government for another plum patronage appointment. We are allowing the government to do that.
The other side will be going to question period raising an issue about appointments in the other place. How can people trust your point of view over what the Liberal government is proposing?
This is a capitalist form of commercialization of our national parks and eventually privatization when hon. members take their children, pay at the toll gate to lift the Stornoway gate up, enter Walt Disney national park and come out and negotiate the fee with the minister if she deems them to be of interest.
The agency does not create any assurances of your hopes of the ecological integrity of the national parks of increasing the amount of national parks that we have in Canada.