Thank you, Minister, for your time.
I'd like to bring in an issue that comes right from the ground in my riding, and that's the issue surrounding the quality of drinking water and waste management. Municipalities, and particularly small municipalities, are already strapped for cash. They already don't have a lot of resources. Certain foreign companies would gladly take a loss to penetrate certain markets. We know that the SNC-Lavalins of this world want access to the European market, but I wonder at what cost for small municipalities.
What the people in small municipalities are concerned about is the respect of environmental standards. We're talking about the health of individuals, so I wonder what provisions are in the agreement, in CETA, to ensure the protection of municipal drinking water and waste water and the protection of the environment. I wondered if you'd consider explicitly including drinking water and waste water management in annex II of the reservations in CETA.