Chris, being the connected Liberal that you are, perhaps you can enlighten me.  Exactly how much did Trudeau put into the Great Lakes in his first budget?   Give up?   Answer: $7.1 million.  Versus Obama's $300 million per year.  Trudeau has, however, committed about $1.5 billion into coastal marine science.  Almost all of his new scientist and biologist positions in DFO are marine.   So, he seems disproportionately interested in saltwater at the expense of the Great Lakes.  

One could argue that our mayors should be concerned about complacency and lack of funding by Canada.  We have yielded our sovereignty on the Great Lakes to the USA.  

The Great Lakes are vital to millions of Canadians yet the Trudeau government is taking them for granted.  While Trump's cuts are regrettable and wrong (in my opinion), we are no better.