Welcome to our meeting where we will be discussing marine protected areas.
Before we commence with the proceedings, I'd like to acknowledge Mr. Peter Stoffer, who was the member of Parliament from Sackville—Eastern Shore. Mr. Stoffer was at a meeting at the outdoor caucus that I happened to attend last night.
It's great to see you here, Mr. Stoffer, with your lifelong interest in conservation and all things environmental.
We have today four witnesses. We have witnesses from the Canadian Sportfishing Industry Association, Phil Morlock and Angela Darraugh. From West Coast Environmental Law Association, we have Linda Nowlan. From the World Commission on Protected Areas, we have Mr. Stephen Woodley from the IUCN. As an individual, we have Dr. Sean Cox, associate professor and director of the school of resource and environmental management. We will take our witnesses in the order that I just read them out.
For our witnesses, you will each be allowed 10 minutes to speak, and I will do my best to enforce that time in the interests of fairness, so that everybody gets the same amount of time. After that, there will be a round of questioning from the members of Parliament on the committee. When you're around the two-minute mark, I'll stick two fingers up to let you all know that you have two minutes left. I will try to enforce that time fairly rigorously.
We will start off with Mr. Phil Morlock, who's chair of government affairs for the Canadian Sportfishing Industry Association.
Mr. Morlock, you have 10 minutes.