Thank you, Mr. Minister, for being here this morning and for your comments.
I think of marine protected areas, and perhaps I'm mistaken, as kind of the marine version of national parks and their conservation goals to preserve ecological integrity and biodiversity and endangered species. I'm wondering, to start with, if you agree that there are some activities that shouldn't happen in these protected areas, as they wouldn't happen on land. I'm thinking of things like petroleum and mineral exploration, wind farms, tidal power, open-net pen aquaculture, bottom trawling, waste dumping. Would you agree that those should simply be prohibited from MPAs?