The environment commissioner, of course, did a review recently--one that I asked for a couple of years ago--not only on the Detroit River but on the areas of concern on the Great Lakes and highlighted some of the work that is being done. Our government is certainly attempting to make significant efforts to improve and protect the Great Lakes. Of course living as far south in Canada and being surrounded by the Great Lakes, it's an area that's important to me, protecting the Great Lakes and their various ecosystems.
In this environment commissioner's report, it was reported that for a significant period of time, better than a decade anyway, previous governments made numerous promises to clean up the Great Lakes, but, as usual, did nothing, didn't achieve that.
Can you update the committee on what the government is doing to protect the future of the Great Lakes basin ecosystem in its attempts to restore the Great Lakes to health, especially in the areas of concern? Can we bore down into that a little bit?