A multi-million-dollar funding cut will harm coastal restoration projects on the west coast, says Courtenay-Alberni MP Gord Johns. And the timing—and secrecy—of the cut couldn’t have come at a more puzzling time, he added.
Ottawa, Ontario recently played host to the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an international, legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment. Johns said it was just after the INC-4 session that he discovered the ghost gear retrieval fund was cut. No public announcement was made.