Mr. Robert Chisholm (Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NDP):

Mr. Speaker, Environment Canada’s Dartmouth office is slashing 18 to 43 staff, devastating vital research on toxic substances, having the impact of axing studies on important environmental impacts of salmon farms and on poisonous mercury fallout from U.S. coal-fired power plants.

Our environment cannot stand the government’s death by a thousand cuts. When will the minister stop sending these skilled workers to the unemployment line and start doing his job of protecting our environment?

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Hon. Peter Kent (Minister of the Environment, CPC):

Mr. Speaker, every assumption in my hon. colleague’s question is absolutely and totally wrong.

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