Volunteers spend an enormous amount of time saving lakes. I mentioned Bleu Massawippi earlier. They are scientific divers who dive down in the lake and pick up the mussels by hand. We are talking about hundreds of people who are committed to the cause and who conduct hundreds of dives a year. When they travel, they do three dives of about an hour each in the same day, in sometimes quite cold waters. If we had to pay these people, we would never have the budget for it.
That is why I am interested in what's going on elsewhere. In some places, licences for boats need to be renewed, instead of being issued for life or for a longer term, and some of that money is directed to those kinds of control programs. If we did something like that, we would be a little less reliant on volunteers and we would be able to support more management programs, monitoring programs, and so on. A big role the government can play is to disperse funds to support local initiatives.