Great Lakes St. Lawrence Collaborative Summit

LIVESTREAM LINK FOR TODAY'S SUMMIT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXLsRiG6bcU

The Great Lakes St. Lawrence Collaborative is hosting a one-day event to present draft recommendations for Great Lakes protection to stakeholders. The event is taking place in Toronto, Ontario, on May 1, 2019 and will also be livestreamed for those that cannot attend in-person.

Join our Expert Panel co-chairs, Gord Miller and Jean Cinq-Mars, to discuss draft recommendations on the next generation of Great Lakes protection in the areas of:

1) the management of toxics and harmful pollutants, particularly regarding cumulative exposure

2) adopting a risk-based approach to beaches and bacteriological contamination

3) climate change and its impact on shoreline communities

4) nutrients and the value of precision conservation and stormwater optimization

We are very pleased to announce our key note speaker, Cam Davis. Cam has recently been elected Commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. He is the former special advisor on the Great Lakes to President Obama. Cam will speak about the importance of collaboration between Canada and the United States on Great Lakes protection, and the contribution that the Collaborative recommendations could make to this important relationship.

The Summit is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the recommendations under development and to provide your thoughts and feedback before they are shared with key decision makers.

For further information on the Collaborative, please visit www.westbrookpa.com/glslcollab.

Summit Agenda

8:15 Registration opens

8:45 Livestream begins

9:00 Welcome: Expert Panel Co-chairs

9:02 Land Acknowledgement and Greeting: Valarie King, Mississaugas of the Credit

9:12 Review of programme for the day: NIcola Crawhall, Secretariat

9:15 Introductory Remarks: Expert Panel Co-chairs

9:20 Introduce first presentation: Jean Cinq-Mars

9:22 1st issue table presentation: Climate Change: Al Douglas, Ewa Jackson

9:37 Questions of clarification: Facilitated by Nicola Crawhall

9:47 Introduce second presentation: Gord Miller

9:50 2nd issue table presentation: Beaches: Bernie Mayer, Sandra Cooper

10:05 Questions of clarification: Facilitated by Nicola Crawhall

10:15 Coffee Break

10:30 Break Out Groups

1. Climate Change

2. Beaches

11:15 Report out of Break Out Groups

11:50 LUNCH

12:50 Keynote Speaker introduction: Gord Miller

12:52: Keynote speaker: Cameron Davis, former advisor on Great Lakes to President Obama

1:22 Thank keynote speaker and Introduce third presentation : Jean Cinq-Mars

1:25 3rd issue table presentation: Nutrients: Gayle Wood, Dale Cowan

1:40 Questions of clarification: Facilitated by Nicola Crawhall

1:50 Introduce fourth presentation : Gord Miller

1:52 4th issue table presentation: Toxics: John Carey

2:07 Questions of clarification: Facilitated by Nicola Crawhall

2:17 Break Out Groups:

1. Nutrients

2. Toxics

3:00 Presentation by Break Out groups

3:30 Summary Comments by Co-chairs: Gord Miller, Jean Cinq-Mars

3:40 Adjourn