Mr. Speaker, I applaud my colleague for his activities to honour earth day. I hope every colleague in this House will do similarly.
It is a very important day in which communities, businesses and schools come together to do something to celebrate the importance of the environment.
Today I went out to St. Anthony's school in Ottawa. It is working with Nortel, with NGOs and the school students to improve their schoolyard, to make it the most beautiful schoolyard in Canada. Also today I approved 63 projects under an action 21—