Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to try to get at this question of who should be leading these solutions when it comes to mitigating bank erosion. It seems like Mr. Rennie's work on ship wakes is going to produce some information that can help mitigate that part of the issue. There's still the stabilization of the bank, both against natural erosion and ship-caused erosion.
At a previous meeting, we heard from witnesses who spoke about the historic engineered structures that were put in place in the sixties and seventies. I understand that this work was funded through a federal program. I'm interested to know if any of our witnesses recall whether that was a federally initiated program or whether it was a municipally initiated program that was funded by the federal government.
Speaking a bit to Mr. Badawey's question earlier about what the federal government can do to support municipalities, maybe the question is more about the information municipalities need to provide the federal government so that they can take responsibility for the riverbank.
Mr. Villeneuve, do you have any comments on that? Is this something you want to see the federal government leading? Have they led in the past?