Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the officials for returning.
I have two areas I want to discuss with you, if I have time. Maybe I'll begin with the easier one.
In our most recent aquaculture report on closed containment, you'll recall that we commented on the fact that there's quite a patchwork of aquaculture regulations in Canada. There's British Columbia on the one side, where the federal government is responsible for the management of the operations and the tenures are granted by the province. There's P.E.I. on the other hand, where the federal government does it all. In New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador basically the provincial government does almost all of it.
We talked about the need for some sort of new approach to regulation and even suggested perhaps an aquaculture act. The response we got, I think I can say, was fairly non-committal. Could you tell us where you think you're going on this, the direction of the department in terms of solving this problem that's been identified by many, including this committee?