Do you have any insights on whether the farmers were successful in reducing the runoff of phosphorus into rivers? We've talked about that at this committee, and we've talked about regulations for dishwasher detergents and so on. People have come back to us and said that it's really an agricultural problem, which it is, and that it's up to the provinces. However, the federal government has the agricultural policy framework, and under the agricultural policy framework we're encouraging farmers to have better practices to reduce the runoff of phosphorus. Yet we never hear whether any of this works. Do you have any insights on that issue?
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