Thank you, Chair.
I'll start with the Canadian Cattlemen's Association. Maybe I'll just make a couple of quick comments.
Mr. Thompson, in a former life I worked as a tree planter for eight years. One of my big contracts was at the Douglas Lake Ranch in British Columbia, so I've certainly seen how cattle keep the forest fire danger down through that rotational grazing through their lands.
One other thing is that the B.C. Cattlemen's Association were very kind to invite me out to the Okanagan in September of last year. I visited two ranches that had previously won the Ranch Sustainability Award. I went to the Clifton Ranch in Keremeos and the Casorso Ranch in Oliver. It was very educational to actually speak to the ranchers themselves, to actually go and visit the grasslands and to see the relationship between cattle and grass, because of course, this relationship is thousands of years old. Before we had cattle, we had bison there. We have to remember that the best farming practices mimic what's already going on in nature, so you need to have that relationship between plant and animal and mimic what has been going on for thousands of years.
Ms. Jackson, you've already given the committee a lot of information, but in one minute or so, is there anything else that you want to cover maybe in the context of the recommendations you'd like to see in this kind of report to the federal government specifically?