Mr. Speaker, let us look at the root word in “Conservative”: “conserve”. We are conservationists at our core. What we believe in is taking care of our natural landscapes. People in polling consistently care about clean air, clean water and protecting our natural landscapes. I represent a whole bunch of people who live, work and play on the land. They are the best conservationists and the true environmentalists, and I will always fight back against some concrete-jungle, ivory-tower policy idea trying to be imposed on the people I represent. As it turns out, as evidenced by the environment commissioner's own report, these are not working.
The Liberal government's policies have been an abysmal failure. They have been all pain and absolutely no gain.