Thank you, Mr. Chair.
While I'm all in favour of protecting the environment at every possible avenue, the analysis here is that it would actually require additional amendments to those acts in question to align with first nation laws. This is well-intentioned and great, and I think that work can be done, but in order to be in compliance with this piece, we would have to amend those other acts.
Also, given that water flows between jurisdictions, I think that the coordination of those laws through the protection zone agreements, similar to what we saw in the process for education and child and family services agreements, would be a better avenue to work with first nations as well as provinces and territories.