Mr. Speaker, Georges Bank is one of the world's most productive nursery areas for marine life. It is essential to the survival of the north Atlantic fishing industry and so it has been protected by a widely supported oil and gas moratorium since the 1990s.
In 2010, the current government announced that it would work with the Province of Nova Scotia to extend that moratorium. That moratorium has now expired.
My question for the government is, will it still support, and is it still supporting, extending the moratorium on Georges Bank?