Mr. Chair, I thank my colleague from Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette who really cares about Canada's environment. He does a great job on the environment committee. He is a great superstar for our team.
With regard to Canada's Great Lakes, we have invested millions of dollars to protecting Canada's water over the last years including, for example: $48 million to accelerate the remediation of contaminated sediments in Great Lakes areas of concern under the clean water action plan, and I am not sure my colleagues opposite voted for that; $8 million per year on an ongoing basis to support the remediation of the area of concerns under the Great Lake action plan in budget 2010, and I am not sure if my colleagues across the way voted for that either; $16 million to address the recurrence of toxic nuisance algae in the Great Lakes with a particular focus on Lake Erie in budget 2011, and they did not vote for that either; and over $330 million between 2005 and 2010 to enhance municipal waste water treatment infrastructure within the basin.
These are important measures that result in tangible environmental outcomes, as my colleague has so succinctly said.