—so I have no idea what different opinions may have been put forward.
The closure areas proposed in the petition are based on scientific information presented by whale scientists. I believe the committee heard from Dr. Lance Barrett-Lennard, who was endorsing and supporting the petition when it was filed in January. We believe those full closures need to be put in place. They haven't been put in place as yet.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is in fact trying to run a trial on the west coast Juan de Fuca closures, in which they will compare open areas versus closed areas. As I mentioned, though, experimenting with this critically endangered population is not an appropriate thing for the government to be doing.
Basically, those full closures are what the scientists have recommended, and [Technical difficulty—Editor] is leading this policy-making decision because of the imminent threat to the killer whales.