Mr. Speaker, the environmental impact is not good. I am not going to stand here and try to justify it.
However, I can also inform the member, if he does not understand how a sewage holding tank works, that the tank has a limit and when it gets to the limit, something is going to happen. It overflows. That happens in many cases in older municipalities because they are still relying on infrastructure where their storm water and sewers are not separated yet.
In municipalities like Kingston, a 300-year-old municipality, we have done extensive work to ensure that we can separate the sewer from the storm water. As a result, when 30 to 40 years ago we used to overflow into Lake Ontario 50 to 55 days a year, now the city of Kingston maybe has to do it one or two days a year now.
The idea is that we move forward and that we help build the infrastructure the communities need to deal with these problems.