Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll be very brief.
First, thanks again to my colleague for raising this. I think it's a great recommendation. It's a great motion.
On the topic of job creation with respect to conservation authorities in Ontario—with my being familiar with how it all works—really good conservation authorities aren't government jobs. They self-generate a lot of their own revenue, and they're able to pay their staff without having to rely on government funding. Then the government funding that does go into these organizations protects our local economy. It protects against insurance liability. It protects from flooding, and it protects a lot of things that people might not notice, such as biodiversity and species loss. These are really important things too, which might not have the attention of absolutely everybody. I'm glad that my honourable colleague from Skeena—Bulkley Valley cares about these things.
I think one of the reasons it ought to be funded by multiple levels of governments is that, occasionally, you get a government that's hostile—