I have three questions, but I don't know if they're quick. They're not just in regard to this bill; I'm interested in looking down the road.
Mr. Saunders, you talked about laws which, if we put them in place, can cause us some grief because of international rules or something. Can't we infuse laws into our international grievance that would reverse those decisions? That's my first question.
Second, water is one of our natural resources. Is there any discussion about that having to be shared? You talk about the hydrological cycle. It is a natural resource, but we're just lucky that it drops on our land. Is there any challenge in international courts in that regard?
Third, we have a real issue with low water levels. The way I understand it, there are three reasons: evaporation, land rise after the glacial effects, and dredging of major rivers. We can't do anything about the first two, but is there any talk about addressing the one cause we can control?
I live in southwestern Ontario. Of course, the Detroit River used to have rapids. It was like a plugged drain, and now it's like this open sewer which everything is just flowing through. The same thing could be said of the St. Clair River and the St. Lawrence River.