Madam Chair, my hon. colleague's question is, if anything, more under-informed than the comments offered by the environment commissioner a week ago.
As I have explained, our government has invested $3.5 billion in a federal contaminated sites program. However, the program is aimed only at the largest, the most seriously contaminated, locations.
Overall in Canada, there is a list of perhaps 22,000 contaminated sites, most of them relatively small. However, the lead agency in each of those cases is either the federal department or the agency which has the responsibility. There are 16 bodies which have the lead in this case. The federal government's lead is on only the most seriously contaminated sites. The environment commissioner did compliment us on our work to date. We have closed 42% of the major contaminated sites that we have targeted. We are halfway through a 15 year program, and we will proceed.