I was very happy to see the Canada water agency advancing. This is a long-held dream for many people who felt more federal leadership would be helpful here.
The first priority is a focus on observations. It should have the active observations of water quantity and quality brought together and dispersed to Canadians in a national way through collaboration.
Second, predictions can be added to those observations. They go together. Again, there's that national help to provinces, municipalities, territories and first nations.
The third is transboundary waters. We need to be looking after the transboundary water relationship.
The fourth is integrated river basin management. We don't do it in Canada and we're going to have to. Europe is doing this now between countries. We can certainly do this between provinces. We will have to in order to adapt to the stresses that climate change puts on our fresh water moving forward.
Thank you.