Mr. Speaker, I will merely repeat the same question I asked my colleague about the requirement for parallel action by the government.
It is all very well to pass a bill that makes the polluter pay. As I have said, this is the polluter pay principle long advocated by the NDP. At the same time, however, Canadians and Canadian organizations are not given the necessary resources to clean things up.
They make people pay, but they are closing marine search and rescue centres. Agencies are not even given the resources to do the cleaning up. It will therefore mean a higher cost for Canadian consumers, for the citizens.
Why this parallelism between two measures taken by the government?