Mr. Speaker, the oceans protection plan they are talking about sure is not protecting Union Bay or Baynes Sound, which produces 50% of B.C.'s shellfish. It is like some kind of bad joke. This is not about abandoned and derelict vessels. This is a massive ship being broken apart in the water, on the high tide line, on the shore. This is a massive boat without a self-contained floating dry dock. This is insanity.
This is not about safety and the strongest laws in the world, which is what the parliamentary secretary just talked about. Is she kidding? Has anyone from the government actually gone there to see this and meet with the first nations and local governments?
This is producing 100 times the copper effluent, 13 times the zinc, according to a provincial abatement issued. The corporate influence is what is going on. The government needs to respond to the people of Union Bay and of coastal British Columbia and of Vancouver Islanders, especially. It needs to show up.