I can, absolutely. Thank you for that.
I know we had seen that there was a huge gap in this country, of course. I know that these discussions are always tough to have, but I have to say that I commend many of the technicians, the Assembly of First Nations staff and the chiefs for giving a mandate. Our chiefs come to our assemblies. They tell us what they wish. We're bringing that forward today in a good way. Certainly they have called on us for many years to try to fix and to repeal some of that, and to make sure that there is something protecting us.
As we see right now, there is so much dumping into waters. It's from everybody. Every industry is at fault. We're all at fault—each and every one of us.
We don't look at our carbon footprint half the time, myself included. I know that we have to do something.
I commend the bureaucrats and many of the people around this table who have committed to try to work through this. I ask you to really, seriously consider the amendments to this bill from the Assembly of First Nations. Let's move forward very quickly, so that we can get to royal assent.
I think we all know that there is always a ticking every day. Every day we have time to breathe and time to do this work while we're here. Let's make it better so that our children don't have to be sitting here talking about this same issue and so that we're protecting ourselves for the next generations to come.
The way it is right now, when you see gallons of raw sewage being dumped into rivers and chemicals being dumped into our rivers and lakes, what are we doing to ourselves? There is no planet B and there is no extra water somewhere. We have most of it here in our beautiful country. Let's work on it and keep it together.
I'll stop there. I don't know if my knowledge keeper wants to say anything else.