Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I just wanted to go back to Randy's comment for a second, the comment about the prediction, the Krkosek prediction of pinks: that they would be extinct by now. I think the last part of the sentence that needs to be included in that is “given the current practices at the time, left unchanged”.
What happened was that it was a trigger, and I believe the industry started to use a pesticide, Slice. I know that I don't have a lot of time, and that's where I would like to go. I was going to ask Sonja to comment on that. If we have time, we'll come back to it, but we're also restrained and have the same frustration with the lack of time here.
The question I did want to ask, which Mr. Cuzner raised, is just building off Mr. Davis's comments about moving to closed containment and having the political will to move to closed containment. If there were a recommendation to move to a closed containment system--and this is to Colleen--I'm wondering if your association would support such a recommendation.
I'd just like to add as well that I have visited one of Marine Harvest's farms. I've taken a tour and listened to the presentations. I have heard and seen I think first-hand some of the improvements in the management that I've heard about over the years. It certainly seems like there have been many improvements, so this may or may not be a further iteration of improvements down the road.
I guess one last comment to add is that we're going to be visiting a U.S. farmer in Washington State in a day or two. There's an operation that has moved to closed containment. Is there any worry that the U.S. market may be getting out ahead of the Canadian market?