Environment committee  No, they weren't. Lake Erie is really considered to be physically three different lakes. The western basin is quite shallow, the central basin, deeper, and then the eastern basin, quite deep. They all behave differently in terms of the circulation patterns and so on. The west

Environment committee  That's outside of my area of specific knowledge, so I can't tell you that.

Environment committee  To date, you're absolutely correct.

Environment committee  It certainly would be my view that once targets are established from a scientific standpoint to say that for this landscape we need to reduce contributions by x thousand tonnes per year, then there is the possibility of being able to move toward regulating that amount and requiri

Environment committee  I think there would be opportunities to do a program such as that. Obviously, the downside of such a program is that it can be perceived as your simply licensing somebody to destroy something, with a payment that will then contribute to recreating it elsewhere. The notion that yo

Environment committee  Well, certainly, if one looked at the inevitability of urban development and decided that in addition to the other things that urban growth is required to pay it should also contribute to further environmental enhancements.... I think Bonnie indicated that we're approaching that

Environment committee  When it comes to agriculture, the tradition has been to try to educate, to incent, to work with landowners. The reluctance to regulate or to really quantify this polluter pay idea is that you would have to know precisely who is contributing what. The nature of phosphorus from agr

Environment committee  It's a legitimate question.

Environment committee  It borders Lake St. Clair as well as Lake Erie. The Thames itself doesn't touch Lake Erie, but the Lower Thames jurisdiction does. The tributaries that flow directly into the north shore are under our jurisdiction as well.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Correct, yes.

Environment committee  Yes, somewhat.

Environment committee  Essentially, in the framework that Environment Canada had developed as part of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, it focused on the Great Lakes, so, for example, there was the lakewide management plan for Lake Erie. There was a similar effort undertaken for lower Lake Huron

Environment committee  Again, it's difficult to attribute specific improvements, other than more awareness around the importance of maintaining shoreline vegetation. As you know, the Canadian side of Lake St. Clair is intensively farmed and very heavily drained. But there are very important wetlands as

Environment committee  Sorry, just to clarify, in terms of the sources of greatest load?