Thank you, and thank you for your recommendations to the committee as well.
Dr. Devlin, of course there was a large announcement today and you talked about that with reference to genetically modified salmon and being the first country in the world. Now Canada has made this announcement and you talked about some of the scientific studies that happened to, I would assume, allow this decision to go forward. You mentioned low risk.
Could you expound on how the department got to that determination? My understanding is that it was Health Canada that made the announcement today and DFO was not part of that. Could you talk about the science behind this, the scientific studies, and the evidence to show that there would be low risk? Also, do you know about any consumer concerns or the aquaculture industry's concerns?