Thank you for your question, Mr. Blais. You are quite right—climate change is one of the most important priorities for Canada and the world. The department has actually been studying climate change for quite a long time. Increasingly, we are trying to carry out research projects about the impact of climate change on the resources, on the fish and on the oceans. This year, as the deputy minister said, we will have specific ecosystemic science projects including the effects of climate change on the resource. Of course, projects like this take time, but we are trying to do more and more in this area.
On May 1st, 2007. See this statement in context.