Protecting and Restoring the Ecological Health of Our Waters

U. S. federal governments; Establish a new and innovative community and public engagement model to ensure both core purposes of the Act are achieved by 2017 One of the Act’s two core purposes is to engage individuals and communities in the effort to protect and restore the ecological health of the Great Lakes – St. [...] We expect the MOECC to become much more In addition to hosting information about the section 30 open and transparent, in keeping both with the purposes requests as outlined above, we expect that the portal will of the Act and the province’s Open Government Initiative. [...] Lake Erie, Brenda Culler, ODNR Coastal Management Energize and reframe the Great Lakes Guardians’ Council to better Initiate new target(s) and reflect the engagement purpose associated action plans to specified in the Act by 2017 address specific issues by 2018 The Act requires that the Council be a forum for: identi- The Act enables target setting and action plans (section fying priority actions, [...] The Alliance views the Council as to be achieved in meeting the purpose of the Act, more a key way in which multiple ministries in the Ontario targets and action plans will be needed. [...] All of our recommendations above should in no way GFIs have the potential to be a very effective tool be seen as taking priority or supplanting work that is for addressing complex threats to the health of the underway to address algal blooms in the western and Great Lakes ecosystem.