Madam Speaker, I would like to follow up on that discussion of expert opinion.
I know the hon. member was in the House at the time the Harper government revamped the Fisheries Act and took out those protections. Does he not remember that around that time a letter circulated, signed by at least over a hundred experts, not to say hundreds, aquatic biologists and so forth, including people like Dr. David Schindler, who lamented the withdrawing of these protections?
How does the member square those concerns and protestations with what the Conservative opposition is saying, that the removal of these protections is really no big deal?