Certainly the oil sands development will bring these into question. I think what your committee is looking at shows the point I was trying to make, and that is that there's a strong interest by Canadians in the environment they can touch, feel, and smell.
Water issues are therefore very important to Canadians. That's been shown time and again.
All I was trying to point out is that our attention to the larger, more abstract environmental challenges, global warming and wealth redistribution, have taken us off an environmental agenda that may be of more acute concern to Canadians.