Madam Speaker, my question is for the hon. minister who I know is an Atlantic Canadian and with whom I share many of the concerns she talks about in terms of our children.
She talked about toxic substances in toys. I direct her attention to my riding where we have the highest cancer rates in the country, where more people are dying because of cancer and it is almost directly related to the huge environmental disaster known as the tar ponds. Would she not agree with me that the children who live in and around that area are at great risk and that it is indeed regrettable that there is no mention in the budget of special funding to honour the government's commitment to clean up those tar ponds?