Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition about the Experimental Lakes Area.
As many people know, this is an area in northern Ontario consisting of over 50 lakes, which is internationally renowned as an area where freshwater ecosystems and the effect of pollution on freshwater ecosystems are studied in their whole over a period of many years and decades. It is a unique laboratory for studying the freshwater ecosystems that we need here in Canada to live.
The petitioners ask the federal government to not cut federal funding for the Experimental Lakes Area.