Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday in the House, the right hon. Prime Minister talked about water being excluded from NAFTA. Just days before that, the Minister of the Environment was expressing his concern about Premier Grimes' plan to export water from Gisborne Lake in Newfoundland on the grounds that because of NAFTA, this would bind the rest of the country in a way that he found unacceptable.
I want to ask either the Prime Minister or the Minister of the Environment to explain this contradiction. The Prime Minister is saying that it is excluded and the Minister of the Environment is worrying about the NAFTA consequences of Gisborne Lake. Which is actual government policy when it comes to this particular issue?