Mr. Speaker, the government is throwing out tools that would allow it to develop and implement a national water strategy.
It is sabotaging the Fisheries Act; it is abandoning the Experimental Lakes Area; it is cutting the Institut Maurice-Lamontagne—the only francophone research centre at Fisheries and Oceans Canada; it is eliminating the water resources strategy group at Environment Canada; and it is ending groundwater modelling. The list goes on.
Will the government ever stop pretending that it wants to adopt a national water strategy?