Mr. Chair, I would like to begin by correcting the record. Gutting environmental protections is not strengthening, as the minister claims. Repealing the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act and weakening the Fisheries Act, the Species at Risk Act and water legislation is gutting.
In reading the Hansard from the first Liberal round, one can only conclude that the minister believes that the Environment Commissioner is wrong.
Does the minister refuse to accept the recent report of the commissioner?