Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, officials, for being here with us this afternoon.
I would like to begin with Mr. Hallman because I have a bit of an interest....I think a number of us on this side of the table were participants in the statutory review process of the CEAA, so I was particularly interested in that part of the commissioner's report.
You mentioned that the commissioner highlighted specific achievements of the Environmental Assessment Act, including the implementation of systems and practices to meet new legislated timelines, assist with public participation, and reduce duplication of environmental assessment processes. I consider them achievements of the statutory review because those were being called for at the time a couple of years ago. I'm happy to see that they're being implemented and successfully so.
In particular, I wanted to know if you could tell us a bit about how the government is working to increase aboriginal involvement in environmental monitoring, which is part of the public participation piece of the CEAA.