Thank you very much to all of our witnesses.
I would like to start off by picking up on something Mr. Sopuck mentioned in his first line of questions, talking about hunters being the unsung heroes of conservation. I'm paraphrasing a bit. We're here as federal legislators and we're trying to figure out what we need to do as federal legislators or whether we need to do anything when it comes to hunting and trapping.
On that issue of conservation, you're not the only witnesses who have talked about the kinds of conservation work that hunters and trappers are doing across Canada. It should be celebrated, for sure. I'm wondering, though, if you can tell us about some of the barriers and some of the obstacles to the conservation work that you're doing. What is it that we need to know is really difficult about the conservation work and what role can the federal government take to make it less difficult?
I'll go through the list starting with Mr. Zealand.