Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, witnesses, for coming today and providing your testimony on this important subject of studying the whales. We appreciate it.
The scientists have told us that essentially the three main issues are noise, pollution and prey, or food.
I'll start with you, Monsieur Buy. You mentioned that your association members have been proactive and you talked about the education program, so this is a one-two question. Have you noticed, say, an annual ship strike reduction? Also, what are the results of that education program? Could you talk a bit about how implementing the program went? Were there difficult elements of it? Did it go well? What were the good things?