Mr. Speaker, Conservatives have no idea at all of the cost and no interest at all in telling Canadians what they are.
Natural resources cannot be responsibly managed without something called science, but yesterday the government announced it is closing a groundbreaking freshwater research facility, the Experimental Lakes Area. It has been at the forefront of water science for nearly 50 years, measuring the impacts of human activities on freshwater ecosystems. I do not mean to sound academic, but that means the soil, air, water, animals and people.
Is the government—