Thank you, Chair, and to all of you, thank you for being here.
Mr. Walbourne, I want to thank you, as my colleague did, for your service and your hard work and dedication. With your history, of course, and experience coming into the job and now leaving, you would make for a good book to read someday. I just want to throw that at you.
I have a number of questions. Some of the key things you mentioned are so crucial, such as knowledge of the land. You can't buy that. To some extent, you almost can't teach it unless you come from there. I get caught up when in the north they refer to “the south”, that we're all in the south. They feel that they're quite a distance away.
We as a country, and as government, have shown much more interest in the north. The need for rangers is probably higher every day. We do recommend other regions where we could be, where we could have stations and whatnot. I don't know how many stations are out there right now, where we have a main station and then they feed off. Is there an area, or are there more places that now, in the last 10 years, we could have a home base so that we get closer to them and reach a greater number?