It's basic limnology, and it's great to see these things are actually happening.
I really did appreciate your response about the oil sands, that there are quite a few programs offered by the province when it comes to these kinds of things. I don't know if you can respond to these things directly, but the Province of Alberta has a long-term river network monitoring program. They have the river water quality index. They have a lakes monitoring program, which I'm sure the Government of Canada partners with them on.
I used to be a conservation officer. We talk about these water quality testing sites, and I can tell you that I used to test water all the time on various lakes and rivers. I would simply get out of my truck, walk down with a bottle, take the sample of water, and walk back up.
Unless the Commissioner of the Environment were there to watch me do that, I guess he wouldn't even know the watering site existed. So could you tell us how many of these kinds of water sampling and water sites exist? Does Environment Canada participate in these kinds of water quality monitoring practices?