I'll look at paragraph 3(3)(b). We recommend that you consider how expertise developed in regions can be shared to ensure that all watersheds are able to build the capacity to undertake activities at a local or regional level. This echoes some of what Ms. McFadyen was speaking about, that there is local knowledge and local context that can add value and confirm results from predictions made on a larger scale.
Here in Ontario, conservation authorities in the southern part of the Ottawa River watershed have developed excellent flood-mapping capabilities, as well as flood and drought forecasting—