Thank you, Chair. Thank you for the question.
I think it's important for the committee to understand that Parks Canada's ecological integrity monitoring program has been evolving over the course of the last number of years from primarily a development program to an implementation program.
For example, in our ecological monitoring program we had to develop scientifically credible measures and indicators in all these ecosystems. That took a certain type of capacity. We have now moved into an implementation phase where our focus is on making tangible conservation gains on the ground. Of course, that takes a slightly different organizational set-up to accomplish.
As for the recommendations the Auditor General's office made on what they would like to see as priorities, we agree with those priorities. We agree with completing the implementation of our monitoring program, for example. Parks Canada feels it's got the right organization linked to the task at hand now.