Mr. Speaker, 31 concerned citizens from Quebec, Ontario and United States are in Ottawa today to meet with parliamentarians to raise issues about the Great Lakes basin.
Some 321 million pounds of toxins were released by legal permit in 1996 into the Great Lakes. Research and monitoring budgets have been substantially reduced and regulations weakened.
These concerned citizens are calling on parliamentarians to protect human health and restore the ecological integrity of the Great Lakes basin.
This is a call to action we ignore at our peril.