—but it's pretty tough. In this country, with the jurisdictional divisions--as Mr. Mulcair knows, as former Minister of the Environment in Quebec--it's very frustrating for the feds to put their finger on environmental issues and say, “We think you should do this” or “You should do that”. The provinces will say, “It's none of your business”. It's a challenge.
On dumping sewage into rivers, lakes, and streams, the government has allocated many billions of dollars for waste water infrastructure programs in cooperation with municipalities and provinces.
Continue to do that. It's astounding that we're still polluting our rivers and dumping raw sewage. In this day and age it's unacceptable, so we encourage you to keep allocating funds for infrastructure issues across the country.