Environment committee  Some of it might be in the form of reports we've written in the past as well, or new information, so there could be an amount of info.

Environment committee  Yes, we can.

Environment committee  To be clear, that's mostly in the context of the Great Lakes, but we'll provide you what we have, yes.

Environment committee  Yes, we can.

Environment committee  Absolutely, we'll submit it.

Environment committee  We can certainly undertake to get you something on that, yes.

Environment committee  I'm going to ask my colleague and I'm hoping her Internet is sufficient to answer this question for us. Go ahead, Sue.

Environment committee  We can do that.

Environment committee  Yes, I would say they have. Without a doubt, we have.... I'll speak on behalf of the International Joint Commission. We are not the government. We are separate, but they have supported us in our work through, for example, our health professionals advisory board, which has been doing research all along the boundary on the health impacts of all kinds of different chemicals and situations, etc.

Environment committee  The Lake Champlain-Richelieu River study is a wonderful success for the way we can collaborate. We submitted a letter to the Canadian government on the creation of the Canada water agency, supporting the creation of that agency and urging it to focus on collaboration. We don't take a position.

Environment committee  Thank you. The IJC is created by the two countries—Canada and the U.S.—pursuant to a treaty, but we work in collaboration with state- and provincial-level governments also, and indigenous governments. In particular, we do so through a program called the international watersheds initiative, where we have a specific mandate to bring all players—governments, citizens and nations—from within our watershed to try to create transboundary collaboration for the best interests of the shared waters.

Environment committee  In my experience through the International Joint Commission, yes. Water management is very complex. The science and engineering are hard to determine. The people work together very well. In jurisdictions, once you get up to the level of power and authority, it gets a little harder, and I think that climate change is making that more difficult.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members. On behalf of the International Joint Commission, thank you very much for inviting us. I am here as Canadian co-chair of the IJC with my colleague Dr. Susan Chiblow, Canadian commissioner. As also already noted, Dr. Christopher Wilkie is here as the Canadian section secretary.