加拿大外长采取正式步骤阻止加拿大出口淡水,尤其是从大湖取水。根据1909年加美边境水条约,禁止从加美边境大量取水。这是禁止加拿大出口水的最有效的办法,因为1909年的条约将环境放在比贸易更优先地位。5大湖中有4个在加美边界。该问题是在1998年安大略省允许一家加拿大公司从 The Canadian foreign minister takes official steps to stop Canada from exporting fresh water, especially from the Great Lakes. According to the 1909 Treaty of Frontier Water in Canada, it is forbidden to take large amounts of water from the border with the United States. This is the most effective way to ban Canada from exporting water because the 1909 treaties place the environment over trade more preferentially. Four of the five Great Lakes are on the border with Canada. The problem was that in 1998 Ontario allowed a Canadian company from