Mr. Speaker, I would like to respond to my colleague's remarks.
The first thing that bears mentioning is that he said this might not be the most pressing issue of the day and that we could discuss something else. I hope that is not the government's actual response or position, because there are hundreds of people in my riding who have been fighting for this for years. They find the government's inaction discouraging. Now that we are talking about it, we are being told that the government does not want to talk about it today. I do not think that is the kind of response my constituents want to hear from their government.
The second thing is that the Liberal member said he did not remember hearing me speak of this during question period. I am going to list three dates and I would like to know where he was on each of them. Where was he on May 30, 2019? I think he was a member of the House then. On November 24, 2022, I am pretty sure he was a member of the House then too. The same goes for March 20, 2023, because he is very often in the House, as he has stated. This all means that he has the opportunity to be here. We know he is here. I would like him to take a look at those three dates, because I was in question period on those days and I spoke to the shoreline erosion problem.
The member complained that I never talk about other places, apart from the St. Lawrence, affected by the same phenomenon. The fact is that there are various causes. Tides are the main cause of erosion in the Magdalen Islands and British Columbia. In the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes, navigation is the culprit. Even the experts from the Great Lakes and Ontario area who appeared before the committee said that the most pronounced effects occur on the St. Lawrence, in the vicinity of Montreal.