Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I want to thank all of the witnesses. We have some very talented and very knowledgeable people here today, and I appreciate your being available.
I'll start off with Mr. Hwang. When the federal government launched the strategic salmon health initiative with Genome BC and the Pacific Salmon Foundation—I believe it was in 2012—the initiative was launched in a four-phase mandate. The committee recently heard that the SSHI has been allowed to lapse and that only two of the four phases have been completed.
Considering the valuable contributions to the science that SSHI has made in the course of the two phases that have been completed, do you think the initiative should or would continue to provide valuable science if it were resourced and allowed to continue to work through to completion?