Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Minister and staff, welcome.
I have just a few questions, and the first one is about aquaculture. It's a two-part question. The first is just a little bit of a transition now from the B.C. situation. How's that going at this point in time?
We're hearing a lot of testimony as we're doing our study, and I'm looking forward to actually getting the study done, but when we actually produce that.... We're hearing a lot of testimony with respect to a transition and what closed containment would look like. People have projected that it could be 10 to 20 years before you could ever move onshore and that type of thing.
What are the department's plans with respect to investment in future research with respect to aquaculture and closed containment, and aquaculture on land—over and above some of the investments that are put in facilities out in B.C., for example?