Speaker. the question raised by the honorable member for Lambton West has to do with a matter that was decided in principle some years ago. According to the information available to me. at the time the dredging was started in the St. Clair RiverI recall the very beginnings of that because I was minister of citizenship and immigration at the time and it affected the Indian reserve on Walpole Islandthe U.S. Government also proposed that they should make a study of the possibility of putting some kind of barrier in the river just below the Blue Water Bridge in order to maintain the levels as much as could be done in that way without interference with navigation. and to offset any possible effect that dredging might have. However. this was not the kind of thing that could be done very effectively without a good deal of model testing and experimentation.
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