Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
Thanks very much for being with us today. We certainly appreciate the information, and certainly the explanation beforehand was very helpful. Although a lot of us have been through the estimates several times, they are always still confusing, so it's great to hear the explanation.
My riding is on the Great Lakes, so I'm going to talk a little bit more about that area of DFO.
First of all, I want to talk about invasive species. We know that it's a real, great threat to our watershed systems. When I'm looking at the estimate, it appears that program funding for the aquatic invasive species is in fact being decreased. Could you explain why that would be? Why would they cut that funding when we're looking at really important things such as the Asian carp? I know we're working with our U.S. counterparts, but everything we are talking about is just horrendously expensive.
Have I read that correctly? Is that amount being decreased?