Mr. Speaker, I want to make it very clear that in no way would the government or the Department of Defence seek to harass local residents, permit local residents to be harassed or in fact compromise the health or safety of local residents.
Mr. Speaker, you and I understand that the role of a local member of Parliament is to do what one can to help his or her constituency. The member for Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke has done a good job of making a case to relocate this facility to her constituency.
I am from Atlantic Canada. We hope very much that we can find reasons to have large federal infrastructure in our constituencies, but a case has to be made on the merits. The arguments to relocate a facility have to hold water. I hope that in this case there would be no indication of gross patronage or an attempt to relocate a facility from a current location, where it is doing a wonderful job, simply for crass partisan purposes. We on this side would certainly never support such an effort.