The Minister of the Environment would also be the minister responsible for the Canada water agency. Right now, as I said before, there are 3,000 or more employees across the federal government in the water field. About a thousand of those are in Environment Canada, and they're all meeting their own legitimate responsibilities. The other 2,000 in other departments are all meeting their responsibilities. However, they're not meeting them together in the most effective way.
The main thing the agency would do would be to bring everybody together in the federal government with common policies, eliminating gaps and overlaps and fragmentation. By bringing everybody together, they would work better with everybody else in the water sector, namely, other governments, the private sector, farmers and municipalities.
We need all hands on deck to deal with climate change, indigenous rights and other emerging issues which are critically important right now.