Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you also to Parks Canada for being here and participating.
This is a great organization, and I think supplemental requests are not out of line.
I have a couple of questions. One is about the 2020-21 departmental results report. It had an initial aim to have at least 23.7 million people experience Parks Canada during 2021. Of course, we know that COVID limited people's travel and resulted in reduced and modified visitor programming, but there were 17 million visitors in 2020-21. I'm just curious as to how Parks Canada balances the goal of welcoming growing numbers of visitors to the parks and preventing or alleviating damage to natural areas due to high numbers of visitors.
Also, along the same lines, did lower numbers of visitors during the pandemic have any positive impacts on regeneration projects or other Parks Canada initiatives? Did you notice anything or were you able to do anything given that temporary period in which there were lower visitor numbers at the parks?