Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to ask my questions in follow-up to my Member's statement to Minister of ENR. What I was trying to say in my long-winded Member's statement was how much water we have all around us. As a young girl, I always took it for granted that the health of our water will be protected and that would be one of the last things that we would ever have to worry about. But as we learned, as time progresses and the climate change is affecting us, and the fact that water travels through many jurisdictions and the fact that we're living in the downstream area of the largest resource powerhouse development project south of us, it is really time for us to act. I also believe in balance between resource development projects and climate change. I mean environmental protection. We need both of them. The one thing I think we need to do, and I think that's the main reason for highlighting this issue, is that we really need to get together and have a united front and a collective plan about how we go about doing this and how we work together. I don't think we've done that territorially. I'd like to, at least, we need to do it territorially, nationally...We need to call on our neighbours south of us. I'd like to ask the Minister if he would be willing to look at bringing all the leaders together of our territories to have a discussion in a format like a water summit so that we can have a plan of action as to what to do? Thank you.
Sandy Lee on Question 419-15(5): Need For A Collaborative Provincial/territorial Water Strategy
In the Legislative Assembly on March 5th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Question 419-15(5): Need For A Collaborative Provincial/territorial Water Strategy
Item 6: Oral Questions
March 4th, 2007
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