Mr. Speaker, we want to know not what the government has done but what the government is going to do and when it expects to hear back from the President.
This does not just have to do with Manitoba. This impacts on everything that would have been formerly treated by the IJC. If this is allowed to go ahead without the IJC being involved, then things could happen to the Great Lakes down the road on both sides of the border without any IJC reference.
This will be a terrible precedent not just for Manitoba's ecosystem but for boundary waters disputes in general.