Mr. Chair, thank you for the question.
Certainly, at the senior official level, we have spent considerable time with the GLFC team to codify, as you pointed out, and future-proof—to steal one of my colleague's comments—the relationship, so that the tenets of the convention are respected and the irritants that have arisen over the last number of years are addressed, in terms of our relationship with the GLFC on how we provide funding and when we provide funding, so that the great work of the commission can carry on and they have the stable and predictable funding to allow for planning and so on, so they can continue to do that work with their American counterparts.
We have codified the sea lamprey control component in terms of an MOA. We're in the process of codifying the remainder of the relationship to provide that future-proofing. We have a means to address areas of conflict in the future without having to bring together a group like this to discuss it. We can deal with it at our level.
By and large, the conversations have been very successful. We expect that the second part of the codification of the relationship will be finalized within the next couple of weeks.