There was no hint in there was there, Mr. Chair?
It's good to be with you. I want to thank each of the witnesses today. Thank you for taking the time. We're honoured to have you join us. Thanks to our colleague Mr. Hanley for pushing to make sure this happened and for his passion around this issue. It's so important and so vital.
I hope someday to have the opportunity to visit the beautiful Yukon territory. I've never been to the Yukon, but hopefully that will happen at some point.
Hearing your stories and hearing about the obvious significance and connection between the salmon and your peoples is powerful indeed.
I'm a practical person. I know I'm not as technical or scientific, but could you just step back and look at it through a layman's lens and cut right through all of the data and the information, which is all very important, and bring it down to what you would rank as the top three biggest challenges? I know there are numerous challenges, but what are the top three biggest challenges to which you feel we could get a solution the fastest or have action and practical steps taken the fastest to get us closer to seeing a rehabilitation of the stocks in your rivers?
I know it's kind of a big, broad, open question, but I think a lot of people listening today want to know what we can do with respect to temperatures and things like that overall. They're big challenges that are going to be with us for a long time. I don't know if there's anything immediate, especially by one nation, that is going to fix or solve that problem, but perhaps there are things within our control locally that we can do.
I'll start with you, Ms. Mayes, and then I'd be interested in hearing from Dr. Peacock and of course from Chief Tom. That's my long preamble, but now it's over to you to answer the big question.