Thank you, Mr. Weston.
Minister, welcome and thank you for being with us today.
You're a first-term member of Parliament and minister, and you climbed quickly the ladder of familiarity with a very demanding portfolio.
As you know, our committee has been focused on aquaculture recently, and you mentioned a study that we're working on. The whole area is bound by two competing concerns: economic development—and you referred to that—and environmental sustainability. Our government's commitment to that has been already alluded to by Ms. Murray in terms of the upholding of the environmental assessment in the Taseko file.
I wonder, given that this is something of concern particularly to British Columbians, if you could elaborate. You have said that there is interest in closed containment, and I would say that our committee members are united in interest in that. Can you tell us a little more about what the government is doing to explore closed containment as an option?