Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In order to keep us on time, I'll have just one question for the minister. It has to do with the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. There are two issues that seem to be coming up continuously.
The first one is that Canada isn't funding its fair share of the commission's work. The second one is that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans isn't committing the budgeted amount to the commission that you have authorized. That leaves the commission short of money to do what it wants to do, rather upset with Canada for not maintaining its share of the work and the funding, and some suspicions about DFO and its sticky fingers when it comes to the allocation for the commission.
I'll give you some time to respond to all of that.