Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Again, thanks to our witnesses for being here today. I want to pick up chapter 7 and the criticisms in your report about Parks Canada.
Since 2006, we have expanded our parks footprint by some 30%. That is a historic expansion. There's the Nahanni National Park, Great Bear Rainforest, the eastern part of the Great Slave Lake, Ramparts River, Gwaii Haanas National Park and, as recently as early this year, Sable Island. That would be 10% of the second largest country on earth—and bigger than many of the countries of the world—now protected under the Parks Canada system.
In your report you mention that Parks Canada has only assessed 41% of the parks' ecosystems and that a third of those are in decline. I just want to follow up on that point. A third of 60% would mean that 20% are in decline. Could you just comment briefly on how many were status quo and how many had actually improved?
