Mr. Speaker, the question is clear. Why is the government cutting environmental protection for Canadians?
The environment commissioner testified that environmental screenings will be reduced from as many as 6,000 per year to as few as 20 or 30. Ninety-nine per cent of the projects that are now screened will not have any screening at all and will, in fact, be rubber-stamped by the government. Some of these are major mining projects, oil sands projects and even some offshore drilling projects, all of which will be rubber-stamped by the government.
How can the Prime Minister justify these reckless attacks on our economy and our environment?