Nuclear Waste  Mr. Speaker, the facility at Pinawa has provided very useful research activity over the year with respect to a variety of important initiatives. It is obviously going through a period of transition. We have provided some adjustment tools through Natural Resources Canada and thro

Nuclear Waste  Mr. Speaker, again the premise to the question is totally misplaced. The policy framework announced by this government two or three years ago clearly acknowledged that the financial responsibility should rest properly with those who create the waste, the owners and the producers

Nuclear Waste  Mr. Speaker, the preamble and the allegations in the hon. gentleman's question is a crock of horse feathers. The facts of the matter are that we had a comprehensive environmental study conducted by Seaborn, we have responded in detail to that report by Seaborn, and that is based

Nuclear Waste  Mr. Speaker, we said in response to the Seaborn recommendations that it is fully the responsibility of the utilities and the other owners and producers of the waste in Canada for the waste management organization. We also said in our response to Seaborn that that is subject to f

Aboriginal Affairs  Mr. Speaker, the premise to the hon. member's question is completely false. In response to the Seaborn report we indicated that we would be pursuing a process of consultation with aboriginal peoples as Seaborn recommended. In fact those aboriginal organizations have asked for th

Aboriginal Affairs  Mr. Speaker, as the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development has indicated many times in the House both by her words and her actions, the commitment of the government to the aboriginal people of the country is full and with no strings attached. With respect to the iss

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, in our response to the Seaborn report we agreed with the vast majority of Seaborn's recommendations. He did recommend a waste management authority that would be in the nature of a federal crown corporation. It was our view in the response that we published last Dece

Canadian Farmers  Mr. Speaker, on this particular weekend the minister of agriculture was leaving for a trade mission to Japan. In my own case, I was in Washington on Saturday talking with Canadian embassy officials about access to U.S. grain markets for Canadian grain supplies and heading off add

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the hon. gentleman, in making reference to the report by CTV News, is simply and plainly wrong. The government's policy with respect to this matter was announced on December 3 in our response to the Seaborn report. The Seaborn report was the culmination of 10 years

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the allegations in the gentleman's preamble are absolutely and plainly false. The document that is the government's policy is the December 3 response to the Seaborn report. It lays out an extensive pattern of consultation by me, by my department, by the government a

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, that work is already under way in two important respects. First, in the budget of 1998 we introduced the climate change action fund. This is $150 million in new money to support the ongoing process with the provinces, to support the work on science, to support the w

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, again I point out to the hon. member that the 1998 budget added $150 million to the process. That brings this government's investment in climate change solutions on an annual basis to over $200 million per year. In addition, there were a number of technical measures

Commodity Prices  Mr. Speaker, the leader of the NDP has awakened to the intensely competitive global marketplace. In a news release today she said the only answer is for Canadians to work together to find solutions. That is exactly what we have been doing as a government since 1993. We are fight

Aboriginal Affairs  Mr. Speaker, we all know that some of the conditions facing off reserve aboriginal people are very distressing and deserve the attention of all governments in this country that have jurisdiction and responsibility. The Government of Canada is working on its side of that responsi

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, this initiative is about Canada's geomatics industry, one of the country's fastest growing high tech sectors with more than 1,500 companies, 20,000 employees and a global market growing at a rate of 20% a year. Canada is a big player in that market. GeoConnexions is