Okay. Thanks.
I'd like to ask some questions about recent developments. Despite the assertions that scientific oversight would continue, this September we learned that Environment Canada had dissolved the program responsible for scientific oversight and that a data manager would be put in charge of the operation of WOUDC. We also heard that the Brewer spectrophotometers, which are an integral part of that research and used by scientists around the world, would be maintained by people without the scientific knowledge to be carrying out the task.
What I'm seeing in the scientific community is that they're pretty upset by this. They claim, and I think they have the on-the-ground information and experience to make these assertions, that it puts world ozone layer depletion data in jeopardy. They say that data managers won't be able to catch data errors because of lack of scientific knowledge.
S and T's claim that services aren't going to be jeopardized are countered by these folks in the scientific community on the ground.
I would like to know how you respond to these critiques that are coming from the very users of this data.