I'd like to get some information from the experts. It seems like an indirect question but it will help me to better understand.
Let's say you took water across the border in a tanker that had a capacity of 49,000 litres and the provincial government gave a permit to a trucking company to take 49,000 litres of water a day in a tanker. Would that not be trade in water? Would that be considered trade in a water product, such that it wouldn't open the door to bulk water exports because it would be considered a product?
My second question is related. The International Boundary Waters Treaty Act was mentioned and the 50,000-litre threshold. If you were allowing the water in its natural state to leave the country in quantities of 50,000 litres, if you're not using a pipeline, canal, tunnel, aqueduct, or channel, I don't know how you would be transporting it other than through the natural flow. Where does this figure of 50,000 litres come from in the context of the International Boundary Waters Treaty Act? Why is it 50,000 litres?
If you could answer my questions, I think that would help me understand better.