Through you, Madam Chair, thank you for the question.
Natural Resources Canada, as you know, is the federal department responsible for the day-to-day management and science with respect to understanding groundwater in Canada.
As I mentioned in the context of floods and droughts, we expect that groundwater will come up in many ways as part of our consultations and discussions around the development of a national water security strategy, and we expect that it will come up with our provincial and territorial partners. I don't want to prejudge the outcomes of those discussions, but we know that it will be a front-and-centre issue for many Canadians. It is the largest source of fresh water in Canada, and we need to understand how that might change over time as we draw more from groundwater.