Response to Recommendations
Surveillance and Monitoring
11. Governments identify surveillance and monitoring programs essential to track contaminant loadings to and concentration trends for each of the Great Lakes; provide assurances to the Commission and the public that these programs will be maintained; and provide on a timely basis data and information to quantify load reductions and ecosystem improvements.
The Government of Canada acknowledges the essential role of surveillance and monitoring in tracking loadings and concentration trends of contaminants in the Great Lakes. Canada, in concert with the relevant provincial and United States agencies, has been pursuing mechanisms to optimize and streamline Great Lakes surveillance and monitoring activities to derive maximum benefits from available resources. The Canadian and Ontario governments are committed, under the COA, to set up federal-provincial mechanisms to ensure effective coordination of activities, including appropriate integration of research, reporting, and monitoring and surveillance activities, to fulfill commitments under the GLWQA.
The Government of Canada is committed to continue to plan, coordinate and implement essential surveillance and monitoring programs on the Great Lakes, and to provide timely reports on findings.
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