Mr. John Cooper at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

On March 12th, 2009. See this statement in context.

March 12th, 2009 / 9:40 a.m.

Director, Water, Air and Climate Change Bureau, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Department of Health

I'll probably turn to my colleagues at Environment Canada.

While we very actively promote source water protection as a means of ensuring safe drinking water, we have to rely very extensively on provincial and territorial jurisdictions and the roles of Environment Canada that have a lead in terms of water management in the lakes, rivers and--

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