Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Madam Minister, welcome and thank you to you and your associates.
Madam Minister, your Conservative government has been asleep when it comes to the B.C. fisheries, when it comes to that part of the country. Your party platform in 2006 promised an independent judicial inquiry. Why did it take all the pressure from the opposition parties, and more importantly the collapse of sockeye salmon stocks in the Fraser River to fulfill that promise?