Mr. Wollatt. Yes.
Mr. Mignault. Have you any remarks to make with respect to it?
Mr. Wollatt. No: I must confess that I have not, because I have not studied the situation.
Mr. Magrath. Who are the officers of the commission?
Mr. Wollatt. Myself, as chairman—William Wollatt—and J. E. Hoan, Walkerville, secretary. We have no further officers appointed yet, although this bill empowers us to engage engineers and various other officers as we may find necessary as we proceed. The municipalities, we may say, have all consented; that is, the municipalities named and included in this for the commission to take the matter of sewer and water out of their hands and place it in the hands of the commission.
Mr. Magrath. What led to the obtaining of that commission? Was it dissatisfaction with the present conditions over there?
Mr. Wollatt. Not altogether. We had in view a very large growth on that side of the border, and we were not as well provided with water as we thought we ought to be, and that was one of the main things; then the unsatisfactory conditions entered into it.
Mr. Tawney. I suppose economic considerations entered into it?
Mr. Wollatt. Yes; that entered into it partly.
Mr. Magrath. Are you prepared to indorse the results of the examination and the recommendation by our sanitary experts?