Mr. Laneuville, I wanted to interrupt you to say the following to you.
You think that the Agency can do this, while other people think it can do that. A lot of people who have testified before this committee have told us about the various mandates the Agency has been given. Seriously, I would not want to be working there.
Everybody is assigning it mandates, because it has not been given a clear direction as to its objectives and the issues it is to work on.
I will read you what one of the witnesses said [Translation]: "Responsibility for the entire global hydrological cycle and prioritizing maintaining the carrying capacity of ecosystems are therefore two sides of the same coin, and that must necessarily guide the work of a Canada Water Agency... ."
However, it was not given that objective. That should have been done following a consultation and political decisions.