Thank you, Mr. Chair.
For the DFO officials, I'm just going to quote from the notice about yesterday's announcement. Believe me, I believe we need to do everything we can to protect the whales and rebuild the southern resident killer whale stocks, but it says, “The Southern Resident Killer Whale is an iconic species”.
What is iconic? How does a species become iconic, and are they managed any differently from a species that is not iconic?