Mr. Speaker, my riding has the highest tides in the world and the Prime Minister's position was similar to the tides. It came in and then it went out. The tide came in when he was establishing his own position. He was totally against the export of water. Then when he had a little visit with the president of the United States, the tide went out. He changed his position and said maybe we could negotiate this, maybe we could bring it to committee and talk about it.
I believe that we should have legislation with teeth in it. We should not pussyfoot around, to use the hon. member's own terms. We should be very clear on our position and not have an ambiguous proposal for legislation such as we have here.