Mr. Speaker, maintaining the ecological integrity of our national parks is a priority for the government and I believe for all Canadians.
Just last year we put a new set of environmentally sensitive principles in place to govern commercial activity within our national parks. It has as its fundamental premise that any activity cannot have any negative net environmental impact.
We placed in front of this House legislation to create marine conservation areas. We have placed in front of the House legislation to create a new agency with better economic, financial and organizational tools. In the last budget we committed an additional $35 million to create new sites within our national parks system.