Finance committee  The legislation indicates the headquarters will be designated by order in council. In budget 2023, which you probably saw, the government indicated the plan is to set up the headquarters in Winnipeg.

Finance committee  There's a combination of existing funding for activities that are taken care of by Environment and Climate Change Canada now but will be moving into the agency, and then budget 2023, as you may have seen, announced additional funding that would also be for the Canada water agency

Finance committee  I'll have to come back with the specifics of that, but a fair portion will be coming through the estimates.

Finance committee  That's a good question. There are over 20 different departments and agencies in the federal government, as you may know, that have a responsibility for freshwater-related activities. In the proposed legislation, the Canada water agency would assist the Minister of Environment an

Finance committee  The federal government already has strong relationships with the provinces and territories in some of those eight water bodies that I mentioned earlier. That will be a main focus for the agency's activities. We now have a larger investment in those water bodies, particularly the