My riding is on Vancouver Island and we have some challenges with invasive species on the island. We've got giant hogweed. In fact French Creek was the epicentre for this particular very obnoxious plant. It causes nasty burns. You run into those critters and they're huge. They have huge heads on them and seed distribution of hundreds of thousands of seeds if these things come to maturity. So we're having programs to begin to manage that.
We have American bullfrog showing up on the island. I guess it has been spreading up into Canada. And these critters—I've had some in my own pond—not only damage other species of amphibians, such as the red-legged frog, which is diminishing significantly in numbers, but we've seen these critters actually pull down ducklings and drown birds. So they're monsters. I'm just wondering if you would comment on the situation and management strategies. I know we're encouraged to kill those suckers if we find them, on the west coast.
I might follow up with another question on Garry oaks and Scotch broom.