Mr. Chair, I apologize for being a little bit late for the meeting. I missed a good part of the beginning of the presentation, so I may also be a bit redundant. If I missed something, please excuse my questions.
Coming back to this extraction of gravel, I have been looking at the pictures that were provided. It's quite a lengthy area, and you mentioned about six areas. My copy is not easy to read. I was asking Mr. Cummins to point out where this big bar was. It looks to me like quite an extensive area of gravel along the river here.
My question is this. Even where I am, on Vancouver Island, they're concerned about siltation out in Tofino and so on, with things filling in, and certainly on the Fraser we're worried about water levels. If we're going to maintain the river levels without losing Richmond and Delta, we have to extract gravel somehow to maintain the river flow.
I was curious about your comment, if gravel's going to be removed, about doing it properly. I don't think you're saying we shouldn't extract gravel. I just wonder, is what we are doing at the wrong time? Did they do it at the wrong time? Or did they do it the wrong way? Could you describe what the right way is to extract gravel?