Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, sir, for appearing before the committee.
You mentioned marine protected areas, and I couldn't agree with you more. Like you, there's a whole whack of us who are extremely frustrated at the slow progress of marine protected areas. We keep hearing the platitudes that they're important and that they need to be done, yet we're not doing them. I'm just wondering why you think that is. Why do you think there's such a reluctance on the part of government through the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and other departments to move quicker on this very important issue when they know the science is there? All of this is old hat, as you said yourself. Why, in your opinion--the WWF--do you think the government is so strange in its approach to this very important issue?