Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think this motion falls within the work of this committee. The connection was clearly established by Mr. McCauley a little earlier.
I want to inform colleagues who are joining us just to discuss this motion that we can ask the Office of the Auditor General, and so the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, to do audits. To address the concerns voiced by my colleague who spoke before me, I would say that the connection with our committee is very clear.
However, I have enormous reservations about this motion. I believe that the responsibilities of provincial regulatory agencies and governments should not be discussed at the federal level. As Ms. Shanahan said, we are in a federation, and a federation must respect the provinces' jurisdictions.
I want to move an amendment that I think will have the support of other parties. I would like to reduce the motion to a minimum and simply keep the last paragraph with the colon, which starts with "that in relation to the Follow-up Study on Report 3". I would then keep only point 5, in which the committee requests that the Office of the Auditor General, through the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, conduct an audit of environmental protections around Canada's waterbodies, especially those on Indigenous lands.
Obviously, this subject is very important to us. While I propose to remove any reference to matters that do not fall under federal jurisdiction, it is very important that the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development do an audit of the condition of water everywhere within Canada.
Thank you.