Thank you, Chair.
Welcome to the minister and, of course, to the department officials who are here today.
First of all, I want to acknowledge and thank you for bringing up the letter that I had sent to you relating to the questions that MP Arnold was asking, urging you to provide a detailed response to BCWF's urgent request to treat the problem of invasive species in British Columbia with the seriousness it deserves. I'm looking back at letters that they had sent around. I see November, December and February, and then of course my letter followed in March.
I'm not going to dig into it any more, because I have other things I want to ask, but I just want to ask this: Will you be providing a very clear response and plan forward to treat this problem that B.C. is now experiencing as a result of a lack of funding and a lack of attention that needed to be paid to it?