Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Hill, you talked about habitat protection and restoration. I really appreciated your comments there about the importance of investing in restoration, the critical piece of habitat protection and certainly about industry and its impacts.
I know of a project in my riding called Kus-kus-sum in the Comox Valley. The expectation was to buy some private land to protect the bottom of the Comox Valley, the estuary, a very important salmon-bearing area. It received a commitment from local government and from the local first nations and got the province on board, but the federal government didn't have any fund opportunity to buy conservation-critical property. It ended up that the province had to double down and cover the federal portion as well to save the project by buying this critical piece of salmon habitat.
Can you speak about the importance of the government creating conservation financing and other levels of government funding that can leverage foundations to save critical habitat?