Mr. Speaker, a recent Conference Board of Canada report has again ranked Canada as scraping the bottom of the barrel in environmental performance, ranking 15th out of 17 countries. This is another embarrassing grade for the government on the environment.
The Conservatives could help improve their negative performance by changing their reckless decision to close the world-renowned Experimental Lakes Area.
Would the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans do the right thing and restore funding to this valuable scientific facility?