Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, gentlemen, for coming. Ms. MacLean, welcome to the committee, and welcome to DFO. It will be good to have you there.
I'm sorry to hear that Commissioner Grégoire is going to be leaving, so let me ask a couple of questions in that direction to begin with.
In the presentation, there was mention of the shipbuilding initiatives. I'm particularly interested in the offshore fisheries science vessels.
Could you just remind us again how much of the $78.8 million for shipbuilding, that's listed in the estimates, will be used for these offshore fisheries science vessels? Are these vessels replacing aging science vessels or is this increasing the capacity of the department to do this offshore science work?