I have similar comments to what I think were made by my colleague Mr. Schmale.
In essence, this is what you're doing here. We all know that you could have had water yesterday. You could. You could have had it done in 2021 like you promised. What putting this kind of language into legislation like this puts you at risk of is, instead of having a free runway for getting water done, you're going to possibly put this before the courts. I shouldn't say you'll possibly put it before the courts. You will be putting it before the courts, because we've already had provinces concerned about this legislation and the protection of source water in those provisions. We've had a countless number of first nations speak to this committee on this very issue.
Instead of just having an unlimited capacity to get water to first nations, what you're doing by doing this is putting it into the courts. I think the public who are watching this right now need to understand the risk that you're putting this under by having these provisions in it.
Thank you.