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An editorial from the Toronto Star, published Feb. 15:

Never one to abandon an idea simply because it’s generally seen as terrible, Donald Trump is again proposing to gut protections for the Great Lakes, thus threatening the environment, drinking water and a great many jobs in his country and ours.

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Policymakers of every stripe, on both sides of the border, should again stand up, as they did last year, and decry this idea as the outrageous folly it is. The proposal was killed once. It can be killed again.

Last year, Trump sought to reduce funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, an Obama-era program that has done much toward its titular aim, from around $300 million per year to about $10 million.

Mayors, governors and premiers, researchers and advocates in the Great Lakes states and provinces and beyond, warned that this was a very bad idea. These lakes, polluted and beset by algal blooms and invasive species, are under threat, they argued, and this should not be taken lightly.