Environment committee  It's pretty close.

Environment committee  I'd have to say that when we looked at the design for the JOSM water monitoring with the Province of Alberta and when that system was designed, we looked at a number of international standards. We also consulted with an international panel of scientific experts on the design, and

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  We are continuing our work with the Province of Alberta to monitor the oil sands region right now. We can talk about the proportions if you'd like, but monitoring is continuing, and I can assure you that I have teams in the field doing water monitoring as we speak.

Environment committee  First of all, I'd like to point out very quickly that the data we're looking at and the graphs you saw on page 7 actually represent 16 carefully selected sub-drainage basins across the country that are under particular pressure from human activities, from a range of things. Mr. M

Environment committee  Well, certainly there has been a range of investments by the government over time, including things like the Great Lakes nutrients initiative and other investments. The Lake Winnipeg basin initiative was certainly another one. Given the range of water basins that we're looking

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  In fact, if you look at the picture on page 8, you'll see a collection of the sites there, and you'll see that they're a mix of federal, federal-provincial, water boards, and other activities that we're engaged in.

Environment committee  There have been relatively small changes over time in water quality monitoring sites. We are currently at a point in our implementation of a risk-based approach such that we may actually make adjustments to water quality monitoring in accordance with the risk assessments we've

Environment committee  The risk-based basin analysis is one of the tools that we use in a broad-based, risk-based adaptive management approach that we're now using in the water quality monitoring program. Basically, we take geo-referenced information from a range of factors that can lead to water quali

Environment committee  That guides our implementation of our program so that we are addressing the biggest risks to water quality impairment across the country while not ignoring areas where the risks to water quality are low.

Environment committee  The short answer is that we have actually done everything that was recommended in the report and more. We have done a review of our mandate. We have done site-specific risk assessments. We have done this basin level risk assessment. We have developed a new leading-edge statisti

Environment committee  The tool's development was basically from the period after the audit came out, starting in about 2011. We completed the tool's development in 2014 with the second, enhanced version of the risk-based basin assessment. We are now in the process of integrating and finalizing this to

Environment committee  Fracking has been an emerging issue and, obviously, there has been more and more attention given to the issue. We initiated a study—what we would call a surveillance activity—four years ago. We are looking at a water quality baseline in an area of heavy fracking activity, the H

Environment committee  What we're looking for are chemicals that are indicative of fracking activity in surface water quality.