Environment committee  It's a great opportunity for net zero, and a great opportunity for energy efficiency by using a resource in a way that's a little bit different. We still have to have the same respect for it.

Environment committee  I am also one of the trainers for the Walkerton Clean Water Centre in Ontario. You saw that on my profile. Actually, in April, we'll be speaking at the first nations symposium that is coming up in Sault Ste. Marie. We'll be doing training for those communities. Oftentimes, the c

Environment committee  Absolutely.

Environment committee  Also—and I'll use Ontario as an example—looking back at regulation 903, which is a wells regulation, we haven't really talked about or the committee hasn't heard a lot about groundwater other than yesterday or the day before when there was a very good witness on that. I think loo

Environment committee  Yes, sure. Again, for the information around resource or source information, I'll use an Ontario example as well. I'm a class 4 well technician working on groundwater wells. We have to fill out what is called a “wells record”. In that wells record, we put down the geology, the

Environment committee  When we look at groundwater resources and regulations across Canada, they do differ in different components. The people who construct those wells have to be put place. Then there are ultimately the ones doing the work mechanically on the wells. For geothermal—I'll use that as a

Environment committee  Again, I'm a professor, but I also teach tradespeople in apprenticeships across Canada. With the way the education is structured, there isn't really a network set up for a water treatment specialist, particularly on the residential side in Canada. There are a lot of corporation

Environment committee  Yes. I think a blanket statement that we have to treat all water for PFAS is something that is perhaps not true. We can step back to look at individual sources, applications and consumer choices that say, “This is what is best for my needs and my home ownership.” A water qualit