Thank you very much, Chair.
To start, I'm going to ask some questions of our witness from Ecojustice.
Ms. Venton, the current closure of the recreational and commercial fishery zone off the southwest coast of Vancouver Island does not follow the boundaries that were agreed upon by a number of stakeholders, including department officials, as a result of meetings in November of last year. In fact, the boundaries that are currently under closure are exactly the same boundaries that were presented by Ecojustice to the minister. It came as quite a surprise to a number of fishing organizations, DFO scientists and DFO biologists that the boundaries they recommended are not the ones that are currently being imposed.
I'm wondering whether any action, any threats of legal action or anything of that sort, was taken by Ecojustice with respect to the minister's office, resulting in Ecojustice getting exactly the boundary closures they wanted, given all the consultations that happened that suggested the boundaries should be different.