Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to our witnesses appearing this morning. It is greatly appreciated that you have taken time out of your schedules to come here to meet with us.
I wanted to start with Mr. Sears. In your presentation, you made a comment regarding livestock grazing and its role in maintaining, and in fact conditioning, habitat for other wildlife species. I'm just wondering if you could expand on that a little bit and explain how that process works, bearing in mind that several of us around the table are urban residents. If you can just give us a bit of education on that, it would be very helpful.