Mr. Speaker, shipping and shipping-related activities are administered and regulated under the Canadian Shipping Act and Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act which falls under the purview of Transport Canada. ENR recently participated in Transport Canada's panel discussion as part of their tanker safety expert review process, and we also participated in an Environment and Climate Change Canada science table that was formed to respond to the grounding of the barge in Tuktoyaktuk. Any opportunity we have, Mr. Speaker, to bring it to the attention of our federal counterparts, we use that opportunity. We recognize that, with the increased traffic flowing through the Northwest Passage coming into our neck of the woods, then we need to be updated as to all these. As a matter of fact, we are having a meeting in Whitehorse in a couple of weeks of Ministers of the Environment and we will continue to have those discussions, raising our concerns with Ottawa.
Robert C. McLeod on Question 800-18(2): Marine Pollution
In the Legislative Assembly on June 1st, 2017. See this statement in context.
Question 800-18(2): Marine Pollution
Oral Questions
May 31st, 2017
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