Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is a strong advocate for conservation in Hamilton and surrounding areas.
The government is very proud of our record on conservation. We spent more than $375 million in additional funding to support groups like the Nature Conservancy of Canada, who will actually go out and raise a matching amount to the grant that it received from the government to protect ecologically sensitive lands in southern Canada. We think that is good for this country. We think it is good for our environment.
We have also begun to expand protected areas in the Northwest Territories, something that should have been done decades ago and something that the government is getting done this year.