Thank you, gentlemen.
In 2012, the environment commissioner noted that Canada's marine protected areas were underdeveloped and that progress was extremely slow. That is what he said.
In September 2014, it was discovered that the committee that was supposed to work on creating a marine protected area for the St. Lawrence estuary had never met. Yesterday, we learned that the beluga, which are found in what should be the marine protection area, would now be considered an endangered species.
What resources will Fisheries and Oceans Canada allocate in the next year to address this problem of what I would call the “under-underdevelopment” of marine protection areas? There is so much ground to catch up. Are we finally going to establish stringent targets to achieve short-term results?