Thank you, Mr. Chair.
There are three questions I'd like to ask.
We've talked a lot about the pine beetle. One of the things we heard about in our testimony in committee was the emergence of the brown spruce longhorn beetle in Atlantic Canada. Right now, there's a CFIA containment area or cordoned-off area around Halifax for the brown spruce longhorn beetle.
There are a couple of line items in the budget that talk about the development of a national forest pest strategy, but also an invasive alien species strategy, and this is an invasive alien species. What I'd like to understand is, considering the impact this could have in the future, is the brown spruce longhorn beetle part of that strategy and is it among these invasive alien species?