Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks, gentlemen, for being here with us this afternoon.
This is a topic that we're finding to be very interesting, and we're learning a lot about it. It's a huge concern to those of us who live on the Great Lakes. I come from the Sarnia--Lambton riding. Certainly it's something we hear a lot about.
I want to ask you, Mr. Wilson, about the ballast water regulations. We had some people before us last week, a couple of professors. I want to read to you what they said.
In 2006 Canada took an important step in controlling this vector by requiring all ballast water entering the Great Lakes to be at a salinity of 30 parts per thousand.
Then they went to on to say that
Over the past five years since the regulation went into effect, there have been no reported invasions attributable to overseas shipping.
Do you agree with that, or do you think there are still issues with the ballast water?