Madam Speaker, indeed, the time for conducting studies has long passed. Incidentally, if they want studies, we can give them studies. The people in the municipalities in my riding funded the studies themselves because the federal government could not care less about this issue.
Is it not appalling to see small municipalities with a few thousand residents forced to invest their own money in research, because the government is doing nothing? They have to convince the government and demonstrate the urgency of the situation, even though the government is well aware, since it created the shoreline protection program in the 1960s and 1970s to maintain and secure the channel.
Let us be serious. The seaway brings in billions of dollars a year. Do not tell me that there is no money to help ordinary people who live along the seaway.