Madam Speaker, I will take this opportunity to elaborate on the thought I tried to express briefly earlier and to ask my colleague a question.
Some government members said there was money to protect the shoreline, but the truth is, that money is often spent on a pilot project here or a research project there, or it is paid out on an ad hoc basis when a city applies for a program.
The thing is, individuals cannot do anything when their land is taken from them. None of the existing programs have funding for that. It absolutely has to go through some organization. Individuals who want to take the initiative to protect their land from the damage caused by passing ships, among other things, are in a tough spot. They are in a tough spot because they would have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket even though the cause of the problem is, as we know, under the government's jurisdiction. The government is washing its hands of it. The government is not dealing with it. The problem is, if an individual protects their land, but their neighbour does not, the situation will get worse for the neighbour.
I have a question for my colleague. Why is there no shared vision and no leadership on the part of this government?