Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for coming today.
First, I guess if anybody's denying climate change, yesterday's tour would have been a good one to go on to see, as alluded to by the NDP, how the invasive species are coming into the mussel farms. There are ducks in there year round. They're after the mussels. We see what's happening with the acidic rivers, with the salmon.
I'm from Cape Breton, and today it was announced that Aspy River and Margaree are going to be closed for a while yet, so there's no doubt it's there. I'll ask a question later about climate change.
Another thing that's happening in Ottawa, right now we have a lot of legislation going through Parliament. One is deregulation of the small fisheries DFO is doing for small fish habitat. The other is changes are happening in Parks Canada, and I'll call it a green plan.
Whether it's cuts to Parks Canada or for the fisheries, not only the changes that are going to be made, but what changes should be made to backfill those changes, or as you go forward if there's a new green plan or some way that the environment's going to have to factor in?
On climate change, what more should we be doing internationally that we're not doing? We had suggestions yesterday about where we should be liming some of the rivers locally and doing various things.
There are two questions there. One is legislation that's currently in Parliament, your concerns over it, and what future legislation we should be working on for conservation. The second one is what we should be doing internationally on the global front on climate change.
I only have seven minutes. I only have one round, so if you can do it in a minute each it would be fine with me.