Just as a little background, I worked for 33 years with the Ontario environment ministry. I worked very closely with the federal government and a lot of other partners on Great Lakes protection through my career.
One thing that became clear to me is that we look at the Great Lakes as a community, that no one group is a leader. That's the way we try to work at the staff level, at the community level. We work and collaborate as best we can and come up with the plans. This is realizing that there will be constraints, but if we can work together and develop a strategic plan, we can adjust the plan based on resources available.
We know that all governments have to balance budgets, have to deal with health care and other things, but we need to work together in a very collaborative way. Sometimes politics get in the way of that.