Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to everyone for coming today. It's always a pleasure to see all of you. You've spent so much time at this committee in the last couple of years. Thank you again for coming out.
Mr. Lounds, I'd like to start with you. What really tweaked my interest this morning were your comments with regard to Canada's amount of protected land and some of the ideas you had on counting it. On the IUCN categories that you mentioned, I believe there are different categories of how to classify protected land.
I was wondering, based on your experience, whether you could you talk a little bit about how Canada ranks internationally with regard to protected land, both in terms of the percentage and gross area, and how those figures vary based on what category of the IUCN definitions you would look at. Maybe you could also speak to whether or not the lands that you protect under the NACP with conservation easements are included in some of those totals.