Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are doing away with environmental assessment processes by making cuts to various departments and agencies. Fisheries and Oceans Canada is no longer involved in the protection of the marine environment, and communities that depend on the fishery must rely on the advice of ministers—this government's ministers—rather than scientists, and that does not even include the elimination of the oil-spill response centre.
Why does the minister want to do away with the scientific dimension of environmental protection?