Thank you, Mr. Knight. I think, again, it really reaffirms the importance of having clear information available for everybody involved.
Welcome back to you both, Mr. Knight and Ms. Elmslie.
Ms. Elmslie, I wanted to ask you about some previous discussions.... It's interesting to see the many ways in which our previous study on labelling and this study overlap. We spoke quite a bit in our previous study about the boat-to-plate traceability program that was promised in the 2019 ministerial mandate letter. You spoke today about the importance of a full-chain, boat-to-plate process.
In a previous meeting, I asked our assistant deputy minister, Mr. Adam Burns, about what's currently in place around the electronic reporting. I just want you to hear his response, which was that there is an expansion on the electronic logbook program coming up, that it's currently largely voluntary—which is, of course, what we spoke about before—and that they want to “move to a system in which logbooks are entirely electronic so that we have real-time data coming from harvesters to better understand the state of play of a particular fishery and also to make it easier for them to provide us that information.”
I bring this up because it feels like everybody is on the same page around the importance of this. I keep hearing about the importance of it, but I'm not seeing that action happening in the timely manner required. It should have happened a long time ago.
I'm wondering if you could provide some thoughts around the importance of the electronic reporting and what you're currently seeing in place in this capacity.