Mr. Speaker, I would like my colleague's opinion on something.
She said that for all kinds of reasons, it is important to protect Canada's natural environment, its ecosystem, and other such things.
I would like to once more bring up the oil spills that have happened in the past, including the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska and the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which caused a great deal of collateral damage. The costs are not in the hundreds of millions, but the billions of dollars. There is an economic cost as well, at the local level, including to tourism and fishing.
Why, then, is it important to protect these areas and ensure that under the bill, some liability lies with the carriers and the oil companies?