Mr. Speaker, we want to treat people in a fair and just matter in Canada. However, I just received a call from Saint John, New Brunswick which has a nuclear power plant. After September 11 the RCMP was told to provide 24 hour service at all nuclear power plants because of what the al-Qaeda group was doing. It had looked at all the nuclear power plants, not just in Canada but around the world. There was to be 24 hour security service, seven days a week.
The government cut the budget. Security is down to two men looking after it. They are burned out and mentally stressed. What has happened now is that as of March 31 there will be no security at the nuclear power plants because of the cuts in the budget. This is wrong. We must ensure that we give those men and women who are in the RCMP, like our military, the tools to do their job. The RCMP needs more men and women and not cutbacks. What does the hon. member think of that?