Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
First of all, I apologize for being late and missing your presentation, but we must bury the dead.
Education and programs are things that I think are very much needed.
I think it was Ms. Boyd who indicated that ceremonial practices take place. I'd like you to expand on that. I wonder how big a task it would be—and you would know better than I—to make these people realize what harm they're actually doing. It's one of the many problems.
I forget which group it was, but we had a group here that had an educational package that would cost a little over $1 million. I'd like you to elaborate on what we need. People need to understand that they are creating a great difficulty. You're dealing with a $650-million benefit to the Ontario economy, and I doubt that many people would want to destroy that. What do we need to do in order to educate the people? Is that one of your biggest problems?
Also, if you have some time, on the ballast water issue, you've indicated that you have detected no new invasive species since the new regulations were put in place. I understand that the Americans are considering making a much stronger law, putting more technology into the ballast system in order to make sure there will be nothing alive coming into their waters. I'd like you to expand on that.
Thank you for being here.