I would love to respond to that.
I would like to say hear, hear! It's great to hear somebody asking these questions.
With respect to Alberta, you had a presentation last week from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. They're very influential in deciding what happens within Alberta. I think there is a very important role for the federal government, within its mandate--without it being a national energy policy or anything like that--to actually do a lot more, not only on research, as we've heard about today with what's happening in the labs, but also on groundwater. What is happening to our groundwater? We just don't know nearly enough about that. The Alberta environment ministry has a poor record there. They would agree that not enough money has been spent on monitoring groundwater.
I think the federal government can have a better role within CEMA, the Cumulative Environmental Management Association. More money is needed to work through CEMA, but it needs someone to drive that. Although I'm not personally involved in CEMA, from what my colleagues have said, I feel there could be much more initiative taken there. I don't know about the internal politics of CEMA, but there is an opportunity here.
There's also an opportunity with environmental impact assessments, through the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. At the moment, a lot of it is discretionary. Sometimes the Department of Fisheries and Oceans will not take such a powerful opportunity as they might, because of the discretion. I think there's been a reluctance by the federal government to get too involved.
But I think it's time for a change, and I would certainly like to encourage that.