Great. Thank you.
I want to turn to Ms. O'Loughlin.
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Okay, thanks for that.
We're talking about parks and the parks system. We've done a lot of work in the last few years to expand parks territorially. Kluane Park was expanded, as were Great Bear Rainforest, the Gwaii Haanas of course, which you mentioned, East Arm of Great Slave Lake, and the Ramparts River.
We've expanded the footprint of our national parks considerably. About 10% of the second-largest country in the world is actually already preserved or conserved in one form or another.
You mentioned the Similkameen and the challenges when you're talking about establishing a new national park. You made some comments about the businesses and Osoyoos and the school and so on, but when I drove through there recently, I saw the signs that said, “No national park”.
Can you speak to the dynamic, since you've spent some time there, of helping people work through the process of understanding the benefits of a national park, and can you tell us where the resistance is coming from locally?