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''H2O: The Last Prime Minister''
DVD cover
Directed by	Charles Binamé
Produced by	Neil Bregman Paul Gross Penny McDonald Frank Siracusa
Written by	Paul Gross John Krizanc
Starring	Paul Gross Leslie Hope Guy Nadon Martha Henry Callum Keith Rennie
Music by	Jack Lenz[1][2]
Cinematography	Derick V. Underschultz
Editing by	George Roulston[2]
Distributed by	Morningstar Entertainment (DVD) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Release date(s)	October 31, 2004[3]
Running time	240 min (including commercials)
Country	Canada
Language	English
Budget	CAD 8,500,000[4]
Followed by	The Trojan Horse
Official website
IMDb profile

H₂O was a Canadian political drama two-part miniseries that first aired on the CBC October 31, 2004. It starred Paul Gross and Leslie Hope. Belinda Stronach has a cameo appearance in the film. It was written by Paul Gross and John Krizanc and directed by Charles Binamé. It was nominated for 5 Gemini awards and 4 DGC Craft Awards it won a Golden Nymph for best actor (Paul Gross.)

When the Prime Minister of Canada is found dead in a Quebec river, his son, Tom McLaughlin (Paul Gross), takes over the job, bent on finding the true reason of his father's death. Meanwhile, the United States' water supply has nearly dried out due to over-pumping. Tom accepts the President's plan to divert part of the Great Lakes to help Canada's southerly neighbours. However, Sgt. Leah Collins (Leslie Hope) and MP Marc Lavigne (Guy Nadon) slowly piece together a conspiracy that threatens Canada's existence.

This movie has touched millions of Canadian citizens, and millions of politically aware people all over the world. It has also a mockery of Islamic fundamentalism showing a Muslim Canadian as a terrorist while the reality that Canadian prime minister and the government is blaming it on this guy whom is discovered later on that he had nothing to do with it. They just blamed on him because that's the true stereotype of today where Muslims are bad. The film doesn't stop there but talk in an indirect way of all different races in Canada as Canada is a big melting polt and one of the biggest cosmopolitan country in the world. It talks about natives which are the aboriginal, arabs, european canadians, and so on and so forth.

The son of the dead prime minister of Canada which is Tom McLaughlin (Paul Gross) is shown as an innocent person who had no interest on running for office. Then, later on, it shows how he had a plan all along to run for office. The problems face the true reality of today where Canada's wealth in terms of H2O, oil reserves, and rich Uranium is all being sucked up by the United States of America.

The film is witty and smart and endeavor's all different aspects of Canada past, present and future. It's one of the most important movies of today's facts and reality. And even though it's not a documentary but the film is actually more than true and fact of today's Canada.

This movie came from the Estimate of Environment Canada that Canada holds 20% of the world's fresh water, but has only 7% of the world's fresh renewable water.

It was reported by Time Magazine written by Stephen Handelman on August 2001 he wrote "What Kuwait is to oil, Canada could be to water. In 2001 at the global economic summit, George W. Bush said, "water will forever be an issue in the U.S., particularly in the Western part," and added, "I look forward to discussing this with Prime Minister Jean Chretien." Canadian Environment Minister David Anderson snapped that the Bush-Chretien discussion would be brief. The prime minister "will tell the president that we have a policy of not exporting water, and that, I guess, will be it," said Anderson.

Gross has announced plans for a sequel, Trojan Horse, featuring McLaughlin's continuing political ambitions and struggles in the wake of the events of H₂O.^[5]

• H2O at the Internet Movie Database
• CBC Television Official site
• H2O picture gallery