Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for coming, Mr. Sheppard.
I think it's fair to say that most of us here are not scientists, and you have done a good job of explaining some of these issues to us in a way we can understand.
After December this year, when there's a changeover of management to the federal government, what do you expect your role or your department's role to be? Do you know that yet? Let me start there.