Mr. Speaker, the longstanding first course of action that the government has been supporting has been to refer the matter to the IJC.
However, in parallel, the White House has been seized with the dossier and with its own environmental analysis that it is doing on the United States side. We are now sitting down with the Americans and looking at how we can absolutely protect the integrity of the water system in Canada.
We have placed our demands out there but we want the boundary waters treaty to be respected in every way.