Yes.
The first is to fix the federal fragmentation. We have about 20 departments with water functions, including four with large ones. The Canada water agency has been stood up, but these functions have not been coalesced into the agency. This is not working yet; we just added another fragment to the mess. We need to do better than that. We have to put these in the agency and make that agency work.
The second is to collaborate. We need national water leadership, not federal water leadership. I have to say that we need to get out of Ottawa and into the provinces, territories and communities to see what's going on.
The third is to fund water science. We're seeing the shutdown of the largest freshwater research program in the world right now in Canada, with no follow-on proposed.
The fourth is to fund observations. We have the equivalent of 64 experimental lake areas with the global water futures observatories. They will shut down next year without further funding. There's no continuity plan.
The final one is to address the emergency. We have a drought in our history as a nation, from B.C. to Labrador and from the Prairies to the Arctic. It's worse in Alberta and parts of Saskatchewan than in anyone's lifetime. I'm not seeing much federal interest or response to it. As a westerner, I don't understand this.
Look at what's happening in B.C. with the problems with hydroelectricity, water supply for communities, and on and on. Great Slave Lake hit the lowest water level ever recorded this fall in the Northwest Territories. It's a disaster for the Mackenzie basin.