Thank you.
I was working for a forest company in Manitoba in the late 1990s. I was its environmental director. I saw the process DFO went through when it ramped up its fisheries habitat enforcement work in Prairie Canada: the rush to staff up, the greatly increased budgets. Those of us in the fisheries business and the forestry business were wondering what you were going to do, because the fish seemed to be doing fairly well before this time. Again, this is something that was thrust upon you. I think the budget increment for Manitoba, or perhaps for Prairie Canada, was about $20 million per year—just the increment to get that program up and running.
My question is—and I'd like as specific an answer as possible—in terms of real fish populations and in terms of real fisheries that people actually utilized and wanted, what did we get for that $20 million?