Mr. Speaker, the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico should be a lesson to us all.
But have the Conservatives learned anything? That is the question.
BP wells in the gulf were approved because the industry said that the risk of a disaster was negligible. It seems the industry was wrong in this case.
That same industry is giving us the same assurances about drilling in Canada.
Does the government realize that the proposed transfer of environmental assessments to the National Energy Board would be a monumental mistake?