The federal government already has strong relationships with the provinces and territories in some of those eight water bodies that I mentioned earlier. That will be a main focus for the agency's activities. We now have a larger investment in those water bodies, particularly the Great Lakes, that we'll be advancing very much in collaboration with provincial and territorial partners. I would say that's where you're going to see some of the more significant investment very much building on existing collaborative, highly functional relationships between jurisdictions.
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