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The plant in Esquimalt was paid for by all three levels of government. governments to implement sewage treatment by Dec. Plant said the regional district was mandated by the federal and B.C. Skwarok said his costume is now in storage at the Royal B.C. "I thought, that's what we need, we need a seven-foot tall piece of excrement walking around singing, dancing, shaking hands, mingling with the tourists to raise awareness and to put pressure on local officials,'' he said. Floatie because he appeared at public events dressed in a brown suit that resembled excrement. Unique local efforts to clean up sewage treatment in Victoria also helped bring the treatment plant to completion, said James Skwarok, who became known as Mr. "There's no doubt the external input that the United States, in particular the state of Washington, had on the federal and provincial governments was influential in making the province and the federal government come forward with regulations we had to meet and adhere to,'' he said in an interview. The ongoing pressure from Washington and local groups kept the sewage issue at the forefront, said Colin Plant, chairman of the Capital Regional District, which represents 13 area municipalities and three regions on southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. The state pledged to support Vancouver's bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics in exchange for B.C.'s promise to treat Victoria's sewage. Whale families bring calf along on return trip to traditional feeding grounds in B.C."I'm happy to say I'm not doing that anymore.'' Inslee called the treatment plant a "remarkable achievement,'' saying he was wondering why the water near his home "looks so clean.'' Victoria's discharge of raw sewage had been a political irritant between the two jurisdictions including threats of a tourism boycott in the 1990s by groups in Washington state. "As a born and raised Victorian, I've been contributing to this problem my entire adult life,'' he said. Jay Inslee in the video call that Victoria started dumping its raw sewage into ocean waters that flow toward Puget Sound in the United States in 1894. British Columbia Premier John Horgan told Washington Gov. The opening of the system was recently celebrated online by political and environmental leaders after decades of effort to get a sewage treatment plant. The Greater Victoria area no longer uses surrounding ocean waters to flush away raw effluent now that a $775 million sewage plant has started treating the equivalent of 43 Olympic-sized pools of waste daily.