Thanks very much.
As you know, when the minister was here, we were reminding him, Dr. Hrudey, of the report that said that regulation alone would not be effective, and that without the investment to build capacity, it might even put drinking water safety at risk by diverting badly needed resources into regulatory frameworks and compliance costs. This is what your report said. You went on to explain in the report what the adequate resources would look like and what you've outlined today, mainly capacity.
Obviously, we told the minister that we're not in favour of this bill until we see some evidence that there's going to be capacity because, again, it's a false assurance that we're going to get safe drinking water just by passing this bill. If they continue to cut the resources and the opportunities for training, this will not work.
We're also concerned that it came in through the Senate, which means it can't have any funding allocation attached to it.
So if this bill was going to be improved to deal with what you described as water safety plans, knowing your own system and that the bill was an opportunity, what would you amend? What would you do to this bill to improve it?