Mr. Speaker, budget 2012 is Canada's environmental inaction plan. The government has gutted environmental regulations, put our waters and fisheries at risk and muzzled non-partisan scientists whose work contradicts the flawed ideology of the government. Instead of evidence-based decision-making, cabinet will use ideology to overrule the National Energy Board.
Could the minister stand and explain why he is willing to risk the health, safety and in many cases the livelihood of Canadians?