Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Hardy, I'll start with you and I'll use English, because what I am going to read to you is in English.
Last week, we had some DFO officials at the committee. One of the officials said this:
As a resource manager, our objective is to keep the seal population healthy. Our objective is not to reduce the seal population. Just like other fisheries where we try to keep our fish at very high and heavy levels, our objective for seals is to keep—
Blah, blah, blah, and I cut them off.
What do you think of that statement?