Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you very much to everyone for understanding how important this motion is for our committee. I must say I have welcomed in previous sessions of this committee opening up and reviewing environmental reports from the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development to, of course, report to the federal Auditor General of Canada on a wide range of issues. Indeed, we have some of those studies ongoing as well. We have also taken the initiative in this committee to make recommendations that I might have said in a previous session of the public accounts committee were not necessarily appropriate.
However, I have come to really appreciate the work—and I'm talking now to all members of the opposition—that has been done in bringing forward some of the critical elements, because the federal government does not work alone. We are in a federation of provinces and territories, and when we are talking about clean water on indigenous lands, we are talking about a federal responsibility, and it is one that we take with great seriousness.
This is why I was very happy to bring forward this motion, and I am very pleased that we are here, debating it now, so we can continue.