Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I'm going to ask you what we shall then do. I'm going to preface it with six comments we've heard this afternoon.
First, thank you all for coming. Many of you are volunteering your time to be here out of your interest in sustaining this wonderful resource. So we all thank you.
Sonja, you said that veterinarians and professionals manage fish health well in farmed salmon, and B.C. does not see the same incidence of sea lice here.
Dave, you mentioned that there's increasing evidence of harm to wild salmon from open-net cultivation.
We heard, Martin, that there was 100% mortality in a fish-farmed area. There was a 15-kilometre line of rotting fish, which is a very powerful visual image for all of us.
Colleen, you mentioned 6,000 direct and indirect jobs and revenues of $495 million.
What you have done this afternoon is basically summarize the polarized kind of evidence we've been hearing since we embarked upon this strategy. I can't speak for my colleagues, but I can tell you that I'm ill-equipped to make a decision that involves biology and economics and other things on which you all have expertise.
So my question to you is this: Given that each member of Parliament here is committed to the same things you're committed to, namely, long-term sustainable resources, what would you have your parliamentarians, your government, do in terms of process? How do we draw these disparate conclusions together and then come to some sort of process?
Dave, I'm going to start with you, because I think you have some experience in giving directions to your MP.