We have extensive water quality monitoring on the Great Lakes and in the St. Lawrence River. We use two different types of monitoring. One is the type of monitoring the commissioner looked at, which is a long-term monitoring site. The other is a type of monitoring that the commissioner found was outside the scope of his audit, so he didn't include that. That's something we call CABIN, the Canadian aquatic biodiversity information network. Frankly, it's quite a paradigm shift for water quality monitoring. What we're actually doing is taking a look at the invertebrates--frankly, the bugs--that live at the bottom of rivers, and we're monitoring them over time to see if the species composition, the community, changes.
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