Good morning. Thank you, Mr. Chair and members.
At Environment and Climate Change Canada, I'm the director general for water science and technology.
As my colleague, Daniel, mentioned, we are undertaking a number of ecosystem initiatives—including in the Great Lakes Basin and including in Lake Erie, specifically—to address algae blooms.
I can point to action that the government took in 2016 to sign a binational reduction of phosphorus in Lake Erie with the United States government. We're currently monitoring, on an annual basis, the amount of phosphorus flowing into the lake and into the basin, to know if it's in line with the targets that we predicted in our ability to manage phosphorus.