Mr. Speaker, everyone knows there will be a long answer, but my short answer to the question generally is no.
Canadians believe that the management of the environment is a shared jurisdiction. All levels of government, provincial, federal and I may also add municipal, have a role to play with respect to environmental management.
That said, it is imperative that our federal and provincial governments work in a more co-operative manner so we can manage and utilize our resources to ensure that whichever level of government is best served to deliver a certain function with respect to environmental management, that level of government should do it. At the end of the day, I believe the provinces should deliver a number of services which the federal government does today.
The population of Canada wants to know that the federal government is the principal governmental body that provides leadership for this country.