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Environment committee  Yes, they did. The upper Great Lakes study recommended not to take any action, but the IJC said they should be pursuing it and then looking at restoration of some of that dredging that had not been licensed. They were permitted to dredge to a certain amount, but the erosion has t

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser

Environment committee  Yes, absolutely.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser

Environment committee  I think there's probably agreement among all of us that the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada has less funding to go around for research. I know we are benefiting now from a new fund for the environment, Environment Canada's cleanup fund, for southern

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser

Environment committee  I'm sorry, how much?

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser

Environment committee  What I was talking about was in the nearshore, in an embayment. I don't have the numbers for the actual lake. In what I was talking about, what we were measuring was from the period from about 1999 to the most recent in 2013. It's that data set we were looking at.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser

Environment committee  We only have data from the last two years that we've been doing work on, so we don't know, but we know we are now approaching temperatures in the 27.5 range. That's the kind of thing for which if we had more historical information we would be able to see how much more it has been

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser

Environment committee  I don't know. I'm sure there is, but—

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser

Environment committee  Okay. I'm not a climate scientist, but I know from reading that the global circulation models do predict that with climate change there will be a drop in water levels. This is a link that I don't do research in, but this is what I've read. This drop in water levels that we're se

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser

Environment committee  No, the large muskies are still there. People can still fish them.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser

Environment committee  The recruitment, yes.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser

Environment committee  That probably has been since about 1999.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser

Environment committee  Yes. Well, absolutely, but it's—

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser

Environment committee  I wouldn't say it was ineffective, no.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser

Environment committee  What we're talking about here is invasive species coming in. The Fisheries Act does not necessarily fix everything that—

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser

Environment committee  No. Okay, I'm sorry; what I'm saying is that we have to look at the habitats in order to manage it—

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser