Thank you.
Thank you for being here, Minister and officials.
Aquatic invasive species have been at the forefront of some of my work on this committee since I arrived here in 2015-16. Minister, we've continuously asked for adequate funding to protect against aquatic invasive species in British Columbia and we've continued to see a failure by your department on its mandate to deliver the needed prevention measures in British Columbia. Has your department worked with the Canada Border Services Agency, Environment Canada and Transport Canada on training so that border agents and officials understand the extreme threat that zebra and quagga mussels would pose to the Okanagan and the Shuswap and the entire Fraser and Columbia river systems?