At Smithville for example, the government has spent something in the order of 38 million dollars cleaning up the PCBs in the industrial park there. One of the more cost-effective ways to reach our goals is by developing partnerships with other governments, local groups and industry associations. This government believes in partnerships. They are the way of the future. There is no question, we can accomplish much by working together.
Partnerships can take many forms.
One example, is the partnership we have with the University of Waterloo and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The U.S. EPA is supporting the university's research into decontaminating groundwater in fractured bedrock. This research is part of our ongoing cleanup at the Smithville site. Those working on the project are developing a groundwater flow model at the site. No such model exists at present.