This year is the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) between Canada and the U. S. The GLWQA kicked off a long partnership that we currently enjoy and employ to ensure, among other things, we have coordinated responses to spills of oil and hazardous materials in our shared waters. As you well know, the Great Lakes are an immense bi-national treasure and resource for our two nations and we work very closely with our Canadian partners to keep it that way. We’ve had a number of successful, coordinated CANUS responses to spills and groundings, etc., over the years. This region is the busiest of the CANUS regions due to much of Canada’s population and industry being along or near our shared Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway border. U.S. Coast Guard photo
Rear Adm. Michael Johnston, commander of the U.S. Coast Guard Ninth District, recently joined Canadian coast guard Central Region Assistant Commissioner Marc-André Meunier for an updated signing of the Great Lakes Geographic Annex (CANUSLAK) agreement between the two coast guards in Montreal on March 14.
The U.S. and Canadian coast guards share a long history of collaboration on the Great Lakes. These inland waters are vital to both countries’ economies, with approximately 34 millio
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