Madam Speaker, I listened attentively to my hon. colleague's reply. He may have missed the point I was trying to make.
When provinces or the federal government establishes parks there will no longer be any development within those boundaries. A case is the recent mining activities in the Northwest Territories and the new found wealth with the diamond mining activities in jobs and increased economic activities. What I was trying to get the hon. member to comment on is that once the park boundaries are formed, we exclude those types of activities. We will not have mining within the boundaries of that park, no matter what is eventually found in the way of underground resources.
Does he believe that before we establish parks across the country all the necessary research be done so that the country and the people understand very clearly what they may be giving up when we establish the boundaries and exclude industrial activity? I am not denying that this is necessary in this case to protect the calving grounds of the Bluenose caribou herd.