Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to follow up. I don’t feel like we’ve got to the end of our trail here at exploring this. We are taking on, from a major federal department, responsibility for planned water resource management, a substantial regime, and within that there are inspections to make sure that mines are operating according to law and guidelines and so on and there’s an enforcement requirement. Now, my understanding is departments don’t have their own legal capacity to do prosecutions that they would request. The legal division, as I understand it, is this page that we’re on, services to government. I’m really sure that five ATIPP positions will not address the needs that I’m trying to ask about here.
At the federal level, prosecutions frequently did not go forward, leading to a massive deficit in financial security and so on, basically liability and damage to the environment and so on without the responsible oversight and accountability. That’s what we’re looking for in this new approach through the Devolution Agreement, I believe, and it requires a recognition and preparation within the legal division to handle this extra legal workload.
An example might be MACA doing its prosecution work with squatters. I’m assuming they’re not doing that, that they’re getting the Department of Justice to do that. If we are in this division, I believe, on this issue, how and where are the dollars? Is this additional capacity being addressed?