Mr. Speaker, with respect to the Lower Churchill project, the Conservatives are trying to conceal unfair competition for Hydro-Québec under a patina of environmental concern. As if the Conservatives had any credibility in that area. The NDP is gullible enough to believe it.
No one in the government could have any doubts about the fierce opposition of the entire Quebec National Assembly, considering that Quebec's natural resources minister has specifically warned her Conservative counterpart.
How can the Minister of Natural Resources have the audacity to claim that he tried to come to some agreement, when there has been no doubt from the outset that federal funding goes against the economic interests of Quebec?