Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for coming. I appreciate your input on this important issue.
Let me begin with Mr. Kingwell, if I may. First of all, let me say that I appreciate the work of the Powell River Salmon Society. It does good work and makes a big contribution to the health and sustainability of salmon.
I do have a question for you, but you seem concerned about the continued split jurisdiction, I think you called it. I don't know that's a problem we can solve, because the sea floor is still under provincial jurisdiction. So the siting, anything that attaches to the sea floor, as the net cages do, will fall under provincial jurisdiction. However, in order to get a licence, they still have to go through DFO authorizations, and that triggers environmental assessments as well as, usually, a navigable waters permit, which is another hoop they have to jump through. But I think there's certainly going to be more coordination with the federal government actually managing the aquaculture industry, so it will be interesting to see on December 19 how all that works.
You made a comment earlier about DFO's lack of ownership. I wasn't quite sure what you were referring to there, and I wonder if you could expand on that.