We are working along with other departments -- Health, Public Works and MACA -- on the issue of water
from taking it from the rivers and lakes to the tap and from the tap and toilets back to be processed. This wastewater standard is an agreement that took seven years to negotiate. Now, for the first time, with the exception of three jurisdictions that haven’t signed on at this point, we now have all the other jurisdictions accepting national standards for the treatment of wastewater. Minister Prentice, I believe, summed it up the best where he summarized it and said as a country we have to agree and start working towards the day when we no longer, if we say we’re concerned about the environment and the water, that we’re no longer going to agree or allow raw sewage to be pumped into the waterways across the land.
These standards set the plan in place over the long term. It’s going to take decades and it’s got many billions of dollars nationally tied to it to do this. The first step was thought to be the need for standards that we can now ascribe and aspire to meet. We’re going to have to do our planning over the coming years to adjust our infrastructure development along with communities and keep working with the federal government for additional funding, to get this done so that we can have primary and secondary treatment of wastewater. Thank you.