Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And welcome, Mr. King, and the rest of your colleagues. We appreciate your being with us this morning as we try to wade through these supplementary and main estimates.
My first question is going to be on the supplementary estimates (C), and it's the third item in the department's voted appropriations. It outlines the close to $1.5 million that was spent on implementing the Asian carp initiative to protect the Great Lakes. As you know from appearing before us previously, we have an ongoing study on that at the moment.
I wonder if you could talk a bit about that initiative the government has in place: how much funding is in the total envelope, what the objectives are, and what has been accomplished so far with that $1.5 million.