Mr. Speaker, people who live near Union Bay on Vancouver Island have been telling the government for years to stop allowing the unsafe ship-breaking of massive ships. Now there is a hydraulic oil spill. What did the Liberals do? They issued a warning that does not stop anything. This jeopardizes this sensitive ecosystem, which includes half of all of B.C.'s shellfish.
The Liberals have let people down. First nations and local governments are frustrated at the lack of action and enforcement by the government. Warnings simply are not enough. Why are the Liberals refusing to do anything about this?