Mr. Speaker, I am glad the government recognizes the many leaders we have in my party. the Export Development Corporation says that it will adhere to the highest standards of environmental protection.
My question is simple. Right now the former minister of HRD is wasting hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money o to fund clear-cutting companies in Indonesia and to fund gold companies in the Far East that are putting toxic tailings into the ocean. Why is the government wasting taxpayer dollars to fund environmental disasters?