Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I have a question for both Mr. Murphy-Rhéaume and Mayor Allaire with respect to their work on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative.
For those who don't know, that initiative is a binational organization that has involvement from the federal, provincial, and primarily the municipal levels of government to work on Great Lakes and St. Lawrence issues. With that said, the U.S. has invested in and embarked on an extremely aggressive Great Lakes agenda, primarily with the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
The first question for Mr. Murphy-Rhéaume is this: Can you elaborate, with your experience and work with your U.S. partners, on established partnerships? Second, can you elaborate on the achievements and benefits to date of this initiative that the U.S. has embarked on so aggressively, including, of course, what we're discussing today, shoreline preservation?