Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have just a quick request for a written response on the follow-up for Mr. Arnold.
Can the department provide a written response on the invasive species budget in terms of what “equal” means and, if you could, maybe the last five or six years of the data between the provinces that illustrates that it's equal? Thank you.
I was reviewing the performance measures that the department set out for the last year that's available. I think there were 70. I was surprised to learn that one of the measures of success on which the department claims success was the increasing levels of aquaculture production. An increase in that was actually seen as a positive, and you exceeded the thing. Obviously the department doesn't have a lot to do with what actually gets produced in the net, but I was surprised to see that in there, as opposed to, say, IFMPs with a rebuilding plan, which is not a target that DFO has.
Could you explain that?