Thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the level of detail provided by the ADM. That's helpful. We have the materials now. Presumably, they're being distributed and there's some assistance from local and regional ENR staff. I'm not sure that's quite good enough to make sure that source water is actually protected. We need the plans.
I don't think it's just ENR's responsibility, clearly. There's a role for MACA here as well. MACA does spend a lot of money and tries to build capacity within the communities to have sound water systems for communities. Part of that is to make sure that the source water is protected. Just as MACA is doing some work to try to make sure we're going to have safe water for all of our residents and all, whatever sized-community you live in, we've got another department cutting some of the funding that could be used to help support that.
We finished the guidance documents. I guess I don't understand why this funding can't be used to support, say, workshops or getting people maybe even together on a regional basis to look at actual source water protection plans and how you actually develop and implement them at a municipal level. I'm not very happy with the cut. Maybe the department can convince me otherwise. What we have here is departments working at cross purposes and I think we need to find ways for them to work together better. Thanks, Mr. Chair.