Mr. Speaker, the minister talked about the quality of amendments. They were not put in to strengthen the rigour; they are there to try to clean up the mess that this bill is, and everybody understands that.
I was part of the natural resources file in the past and I am familiar with the past energy assessment legislation. What we needed was less interference, not more, but the government has created a situation now in which the cabinet minister can interfere at every single level, whether these bills go through a review or not.
There is no attempt here to balance anything, especially the environment and the economy. When is the government is going to admit that it is just using this bill to destroy the energy industry in western Canada?