Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Dr. Waldron, it's just a thrill to have you at our committee.
Thank you so much, Lenore, for bringing us all together and for bringing this forward.
I was speaking with a class at the University of Guelph last week, Ajay Sharma's POLS 4280 class. I said we were going to be talking about environmental racism and they were excited. They said they don't usually hear governments putting those two things together.
Dr. Waldron, I was thinking as you were speaking about Africville in Halifax and how for several hundred years now it's located by rail tracks. I have visited the original settlement community. There's a garbage dump, industrial site, train tracks; the cheapest dirtiest land you could find to put people on is where the Black community was located.
We have intersections between municipal decisions on zoning, provincial decisions on environmental issues on site, and then possibly some federal guidelines in terms of setting direction for the country on what's acceptable and what's not acceptable in terms of how these locations are determined.
In your work have you been tying in the municipal, provincial and federal, or so far municipal and provincial. How does that look?