Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to all our witnesses who are here today to answer questions.
Ms. Sumner, I'm going to begin with you.
There's a group in my riding that advocates for the protection of wetlands in Saint-Laurent near a technopark, which I've gone to visit. It's quite beautiful. They have many different species of birds, including endangered species that consider that their home.
One of the problems the people who wanted to protect these wetlands ran into, as well as the mayor of my riding and myself, is that Parks Canada didn't necessarily consider this the natural habitat of these species of endangered birds, so that was blocking Parks Canada from taking the next step or moving forward, even though we, as a Canadian government, are trying to protect, in the last budget and in our platform, 25% of our natural lands.
Do you have any comments on Parks Canada and the way they go about protecting? What are things that stand in the way? What are ways we can improve the way that Parks Canada works in order to be able to protect more and have fewer barriers for organizations willing and wishing to protect areas?