Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thanks, Ms. Tully, for coming today. It's always refreshing to hear your testimony.
As an avid whitewater canoeist in northern Alberta, I can tell you that when I received some of these letters from some citizens of Canada worried about navigation, I was worried as well, so I went back and took another look. I want to reassure those people who are listening today that in no way at all is the Canadian government considering reducing navigation rights through changes to the Navigable Waters Protection Act. We are not at all looking at doing that.
This is not what the Canadian government is doing. I don't know if you're aware of what we're doing, but let's take aerodromes as an example. That's an airport on water. Anybody can build one. There's nobody stopping anybody from building one in Canada. That's because planes didn't exist 100 years ago, when this act was made. We need to do something to make sure local municipalities and local governments can have some authority to deal with issues like this for safety reasons, and navigation of water, of course, is one of those.
You commented in relation to contamination and pollution. They have nothing to do with this act. This act is about navigation. Clearly we do not want to have happen here what's happened in the Hudson River or in other rivers in the U.S. This is not what we're doing. That's why we want to look at this act to make sure we make positive changes.
I want to get back to what Mr. Fast asked. I looked at your website, and it talks about licensed members of Waterkeeper Alliance. How many licensed members do you have in Canada?