Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to the committee, everyone.
I'd also like to welcome Ms. Gros-Louis, who comes from Wendake.
Greetings, madam. Welcome to your House of Commons.
Mr. Chair, as you can see, we're very much interested, and rightly so, in waste-water effluent. We're all aware that water is essential to life and that we must make every effort to safeguard it. When we discharge waste-water into the river, that raises a number of issues.
In November 2015, the government authorized the discharge of eight billion litres of waste-water into Canadian waterways.
Would the deputy minister please explain to us the scientific evidence that such discharges do not harm the environment?