Thank you.
Thank you very much for being with us today.
A lot of your testimony actually reflects what we heard on the environment committee when we put together the report on achieving the 10% marine and 17% terrestrial.
I was the regional manager with the B.C. Ministry of the Environment for the Kootenays, and we had rivers where there were no-take zones, protected areas, and so on, to the point where we had conservation officers from Alberta who refused to come fishing because they were sure they were going to break the law.
From a regulatory and an ecological perspective, what's the advantage of having large marine conservation areas, rather than a whole series of small ones?
I'll ask that to Ms. Ban, please, to start with.