It was really important to have that fund. Mostly, the conservation authority and the Ontario government used that money. I don't really care which government produces the fund or names the fund. The name of the fund is not important to me, but what's important to the lake and to the people who care about it is the effect.
Again, if you look at the phosphorus loads and compare two recent decades, they're not going down. We have not done enough to control the pollution, and the pollution is stormwater and overland pollution. It comes from farming—and all sorts of sectors as well, of course—but the growing sector is growth, and that, again, is why we come back to fighting sprawl in southern Ontario and in this very delicate watershed. I think it's important to make the connection between land use and water.
What I really don't want is for the government to say, “We'll just keep throwing money at this and it's going to be fine.” I'm here to say that's not enough. We appreciate the money, of course, but to be clear, my organization has never received federal funding for this kind of work. We continue to advocate and to talk about the need to control sprawl for so many reasons. Money's great, but we need enforcement of existing policy and we need teeth.