Madam Speaker, yes, I respect him. Friedman and I agree. Government should be controlling negative externalities.
Let me give my hon. friend a specific example. In 1989, the then Mulroney government implemented the pulp and paper effluent regulations. In the mid-1990s, I became an environmental director at a paper mill. I joined the paper mill just as we were finishing constructing a $25 million waste water treatment plant. Those kinds of treatment plants had to be installed at all pulp and paper mills right across the country. That provided a significant improvement in the effluent for pulp and paper mills.
So, of course, we need to minimize and control negative externalities. Conservative governments have done that and will continue to do that.