Thank you, Chair.
Minister, thank you for being here. I'm sure that you're as surprised as the majority around this table that we have the Minister of the Environment here at the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. Yet the Liberals and the Bloc refuse to ask questions about the environment. Maybe they're happy with the good work the government is doing.
Minister, 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. I know that you, personally, are passionate about supporting biodiversity in Canada, so I'm going to ask what the government has done, what specific conservation actions the government has taken, since becoming the government.