Thank you very much, Minister, for being here. I enjoyed your presentation.
As you can tell from questions from the opposition, both here and in the House in recent days, there seems to be a lot of undue concern over estimates. We know that estimates are really the first step in the budgetary planning process. So we look forward to coming back after the budget is brought down for some more specific questions, and we're excited about the fact that you're going to be able to return to us.
I'm wondering if you could enlighten this committee as to some of the good work that's been done by Environment Canada and some of the new initiatives in place to help protect Canada's environment.