Madam Chair, I want to answer my colleague's question about environmental emergencies, potential pollutant spills, oil spills and the like. The fact is we are consolidating six offices to two, but Environment Canada is not a first responder. I am assured by my deputy and officials that we will continue to provide equally sterling services from those two consolidated offices as we have in the past with six. There are new technologies and applications that we expect to use, but that service will be maintained.
In the House of Commons on May 15th, 2012. See this statement in context.