I will try to deal with them both swiftly.
When I was the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Environment, I was involved in some of the waste-water effluent regulations. This is actually a big deal on the west coast, because it's not just the steelhead salmon population that you're referring to. If you actually go up the food chain, so to speak, when pollutants get stored in the salmon that orcas eat, and when the orcas start to run out of food and draw on their fat supplies, it can actually have a damaging impact on the health of vulnerable orca populations as well. We need to deal with waste-water effluent challenges in every region in the country.
We are trying to marry the advancement of a regulatory framework with investments in water and waste water that we have made at a level not seen in a very long time, through the ICIP. From your question, I expect that that's where people have applied to; if I'm wrong, you can correct me. It's a bit challenging for me to speak about how the process works because typically we have the provincial government, which is a signatory to the bilateral agreement, take the applications and then send prioritized projects to the federal government. As long as they're eligible, we tend to fund them.
I'm happy to take this off-line because I have only a few seconds remaining and I don't think we're going to solve it during this exchange. We can follow up on the cost escalation issue if we have more time—because I'm sure I'm out.