Mr. Speaker, I want to welcome this new member to the House representing West Nova. I appreciate very much that in his first speech in this place, he is focused on the issue of climate change and how it affects his riding of West Nova.
We know that the previous member for Cumberland—Colchester used to draw attention to the extreme threats of sea level rise. In particular, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change identified more than a decade ago that in addition to New Orleans, probably the piece of land mass in North America most vulnerable to sea level rise would be the Tantramar Marshes, the piece of land that connects Nova Scotia to New Brunswick.
I want to ask the hon. member if he does not think that infrastructure funds are appropriately targeted to this question of both mitigating climate impacts and adapting to them.