With regard to the Columbia River Treaty and the Columbia River, I agree 100% on its importance. Mr. Chair, you may have seen that in the joint statement following President Biden's in-person visit, there was a reference to the two countries' commitment to modernizing the Columbia River Treaty, to accelerating work on the treaty. On the negotiations, Canada works very closely with the Province of British Columbia and with the three first nations whose traditional territories are in the basin.
We've also taken to heart efforts to engage local communities, something that wasn't done when the treaty was first negotiated in the 1960s. We want to hear those concerns and bring those to our American partners across the negotiating table to ensure that we get a modernized agreement that works for Canada and that also is reflective of issues related to climate change and making sure that this ecosystem function is a part of the modernized agreement. It is another, I think we could say, leg of the three-legged stool holding up the treaty: flood risk management, power generation and ecosystem function. Those are the priorities that we're pursuing in the negotiations with the United States.