Thank you very much.
I just want to start by saying that it is quite a remarkable accomplishment in the last number of years, the past six years, that 150,000 square kilometres have been added to the area designated as protected areas, as it were, and a 54% increase in Parks Canada's jurisdiction.
I don't know how many Canadians would actually know that we had the World Wildlife Fund International bestowing a Gift to the Earth Award to Parks Canada in 2011. I just don't know that many Canadians actually know about that. It seems to me that's a good-news story, expanding the Nahanni National Park six times.
There's a lot of interest in this national conservation plan. Although we've made some steps forward, we have a long way to go. We have a tremendous natural heritage here in Canada, with the huge geographic area we have.
To Parks Canada, I see you mentioned in your mandate here conserving, connecting, restoring ecosystems, and connecting with Canadians' hearts. I'm sure we're very interested in all of those areas and how they connect to this study we're doing.
I wanted to just talk about habitat for a minute, because habitat restoration is such an important part of the west coast, where I come from. You've done a lot of great habitat restoration work in the last 20 years on the coast. There was a major project in Parks Canada, Lost Shoe Creek, for example, where they worked with partners—in that case it was the Central Westcoast Forest Society—and worked up and down the coast with the Pacific Salmon Foundation. There was tremendous public support among stream keepers. Bringing them back stream by stream, of course, is the Pacific Salmon Foundation's motto.
We're talking about habitat restoration. How do you see that factoring into a national conservation strategy?