Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's great to have this panel together. This study has been quite illuminating, and a lot of common themes have come up. There are some interesting contrasts and comparisons that I'll get to in a few seconds.
Dion, I want to go to you. You mentioned market access as an issue. We've seen over the last 20 years different governments trying different things. The Harper government tried to strengthen trade ties to China. That didn't necessarily work out too well. Recently our government announced the Indo-Pacific strategy to diversify Canada's trade across the Indo-Pacific.
I'm going to drill down a little bit here on market access. What would further trade opportunities across the Indo-Pacific mean for the seal industry? That's number one, and I want to go back to science for a second. We've had a lot of folks here at committee talk about science, with some folks saying that we have enough science, so I want to drill down a little bit with you on this.
What I'm hearing you say is that we need to do a gap analysis on science. I want to tie the science into market access. How can science help with market access?