Environment committee  I just had a point with emerging chemicals. For example, everybody liked this idea of body washes that had antimicrobial properties, and the personal care product companies started to load nano-silver into these products, which bioaccumulate. They're persistent in the environment

Environment committee  The number that NOAA is using is five degrees Fahrenheit or about two degrees Celsius in the overall average increase in the Great Lakes water temperature.

Environment committee  We could provide that information to the clerk.

Environment committee  Ontario has now taken it over. It is funded again and it is running, so that's the good news.

Environment committee  There was just a press release today.

Environment committee  Certainly, I think with respect to the algal blooms that we're seeing in the Great Lakes Basin and the type of work that Dr. Ciborowski is doing and talking about, absolutely, there may be a role in the process there, which I'll leave to the people working in that process to talk

Environment committee  I think our concern right now is that the magnitude of the impacts of the climate change is going to overwhelm the anticipated effects. I think we may be thinking on a 20-year time scale, so we're a little concerned that the language around water levels isn't quite as explicit in

Environment committee  Certainly. From the perspective of the public and the ecosystem use of the water, it could be argued that blue-green algae is part of the ecosystem and therefore part of the natural processes that exist. But I think when we talk about blue-green algae and nuisance algae blooms, w

Environment committee  What will happen is, at a higher water level, this extra conveyance capacity that exists in the river will allow water to flow out quicker, but once it drops down to the current water level regime, the outflow is within less than 1% of what it was before the erosion and dredging

Environment committee  The federal government hasn't yet signed it. We're just hoping to push and get the process finished.

Environment committee  Everybody's onside. It just hasn't been signed.

Environment committee  I don't know if it's translation—

Environment committee  As I understand it from the Province of Ontario, it's just a matter of some translation or something that has to be done, and then actually executing the documents.

Environment committee  There are some differences, actually, in the science. Water does not flow out through the deepest part of the river. It's restricted by the choke point, the shallowest part of the river. That is where the flow is going to be impeded. What has been seen in the upper Great Lakes s

Environment committee  I think one other thing to keep an eye on also is open-cage aquaculture and the amount of phosphorus that can be released as those operations become more popular or intensified versus closed systems where the effluent of those operations would have to be treated like other indust