Nowhere in the bill does that power exist. In fact, it distributes power fairly and equitably among first nations partners, the federal government, and provinces and territories, which will be asked to come to the table with first nations and the federal government to do a better job in protecting water for all their citizens. There's an opportunity in this for all of the provinces and territories.
I'm sure you heard—in fact, one of the witnesses who was on just before me talked about it—how, if we don't protect our water, we will not have life. That sounds so dramatic, and yet the more I worked on this bill and listened to elders and first nations, the more I realized that it is fundamentally true. This legislation actually empowers all of us to do a better job in taking care of the most essential, precious resource of life.