Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to each of the guests today. We so appreciate hearing the testimony that we have heard today.
I would like to address my first question to Mr. Donnelly.
Congratulations on your appointment, Mr. Donnelly. To be able to draw from both federal and provincial experience is great in the role you're serving in, for sure.
My colleague raised a couple of questions around the decision to transition away from open-net pens in the Discovery Islands, but my understanding from your testimony is that you were given no notification of that. I just want to follow up. When the B.C. government realized that there was no plan from the minister to support the transition that she had just initiated, how did the B.C. government respond?