Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
It's such a large field that it's really difficult to know where to begin, so I'll begin at home with an example that affects my riding, the watershed of Lake Simcoe.
My question is really about the collaborative work of the provincial, territorial and federal governments in addressing freshwater pollution. Lake Simcoe is affected by many things, but one is continued development and the building of highways close to the lake itself, which has resulted in many threats to the lake, of which I won't go into the detail.
Really, my question is about how, as a federal government—even through the new freshwater action plan and freshwater agency—we are able to protect these important freshwater sources. Other levels of government may exempt them from environmental assessments in projects, and where we have no jurisdiction, how may we proceed to look at something and evaluate whether what's being done is going to have a deleterious effect on the water quality in particular?
Perhaps we can start with Alexandre. You're in the room here. Can you give me some thoughts on that?