 This is a very important day for the metro region, indeed for the entire province. Today I am announcing that the Government of Canada will contribute $212 million to build a new Lionsgate secondary treatment plant in North Vancouver. When you have a vision that's right for the region, when you have a group of people that are tenacious about promoting that, and when you have partners that are willing to step up to the table, you can get the job done. And that's what today is a celebration of. Commitment, vision for the region that Metro Vancouver has had, the partnership with the federal government and the province. So I'm delighted today to announce that the province is committing its $193 million to this project as well. The new facility will significantly improve the quality of water being discharged as effluent and will employ modern practices for resource recovery and for reducing the plant's carbon footprint. A number of other environmentally friendly measures will also be put into place. Within the plant, water will be conserved and reclaimed. Outside the plant, rain water will be harvested for reuse. An additional feature of this new plant is the indoor and outdoor spaces that have been included. These spaces will support various types of community activities such as education programs, outreach activities, and public meetings. We know that this new plant is going to provide robust secondary treatment in a very environmentally sensitive way. It's going to develop, or this project as was described earlier, will have social and ecological and economic benefits to the area as well. And it's impressive of what we're going to achieve with a wastewater plant, things that have never been achieved before. And this project here in Metro and what's going to happen in the CRD and the other projects is going to ensure that the pristine waters that we enjoy remain that way because of our commitment to enhancing our environmental footprint and ensuring that anything that goes into the waters is at a level of environmental friendliness that it needs to be for the protection of all of us.