Thank you, Chair.
I want to thank the minister for being here today to answer questions.
I do want to pick up on some of the questions that some of my colleagues were asking about the aquaculture transition. On June 19 of this year the draft transition plan was announced, and there were a few items in it that I'd like to dig into a bit. The first one is that, effective July 1 of this year, there was a commitment made that new licences will be done for a maximum of five years, but they also come with stricter conditions to ensure improved management of sea lice, robust reporting requirements and additional monitoring of marine mammal interactions. Minister, I hope you might be able to explain to this committee here how, with these new interim licences, the conditions differ from what was there before.