Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses who are participating in this meeting by videoconference, directly from Washington.
Mr. Walker, you talked about wetlands, as did Mr. Sopuck. We went on a tour as part of the National Conservation Plan, and wetlands were a very important element of that plan. The organization Ducks Unlimited Canada even asked us to intervene so that wetlands would be added to Budget 2014. Unfortunately, unless I have misread the budget, I see that no financial resources have been committed to wetlands.
Do you think increasing the surface area of wetlands in the Great Lakes Basin is an urgent need?