Mr. Speaker, I also thank the member for bringing forth this bill. It is very useful legislation.
In my province of Newfoundland and Labrador, a number of years ago there was a proposal to ship water in bulk out of a place called Gisborne Lake.
One of the concerns raised--and this might fall into his fearmongering category, but it was believed by us--was that once we start exporting water in bulk by shiploads, it then becomes a commodity and perhaps subject to the NAFTA rules and then we cannot stop doing it and we turn water into a commodity, which we feared at the time, and it was a grave concern.
Does the member share that concern? Is that one of the reasons that he is bringing forth this particular legislation?