Thank you, Minister.
One of the areas that, as a parliamentarian, I'm most proud of our government for is the investments our government has made in the department that you are now responsible for, especially in the area of protection.
Could you give to this committee an overview of where we are today, where we've come from over the last number of years and why, in the past, we've seen limited enforcement in coastal communities as it relates to fishery?
Quite frankly, we had a department that was almost gutted when it came to protection.