Thank you.
From where I stand, in this house that I belong to, my Dene home, and looking outside of it, I know that it's the gold standard people who control the government. We need to really bring this discussion and the public forum to people who invest in these tar sands. We need to talk to people who are high-minded in money but have no relationship with the land. We need to talk to these people.
The government here, these officials, are elected by people who have money. You would have to be as tough as I am if you were going to make some hard decisions. I await that. I encourage you to take the discussions to heart, if you honestly believe in the survival of the investors that I talk about—that's the land, that's the water, that's the air, that's the fish, that's the moose, all of these creatures. I don't think this parliamentary discussion should end here. It should move on.
I just want to say one thing. There were 129 billion litres of water taken out in 2007. Right now, a bottle of water is $2 per litre of bottled water—this is quite modest. If you were to charge that for every litre, you would make $258 billion a year from the 129 billion litres of water you're taking out of the river. We are willing to pay—I'm willing to pay, and I pay—$2 a litre, but we undervalue the natural origin of the environment. Why aren't the tar sands paying for that water, as I am?