Science & Policy: Lake Winnipeg Watershed - Norm Brandson
Channel: MIPR umanitoba
Date: 2014-05-01

An issue central to the future of Manitoba is the health and vitality of Lake Winnipeg and its watershed. It is an issue that will remain on the Manitoba policy agenda for years to come. We must ask what is happening to Lake Winnipeg and what we can do about it. The evening's discussion with the Hon. Gord Mackintosh (Minister of Conservation and Water Stewardship) and Norm Brandson (co-author of Restoring the Health of Lake Winnipeg, a Report by the Lake Winnipeg Implementation Committee) focused on what the science is telling us and what options we have moving forward.

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