Madam Chair, I thank the minister for being available tonight. She has been grilled now for a number of hours, but it is a very important procedure within the House of Commons to have these estimates and ask questions of the minister. It is kind of like an extended question period of a few hours, but it allows us both the answers we need to hear and sometimes the answers we do not want to hear. I appreciate the minister allowing this grilling tonight.
I am the grandson of a fisher and I come from British Columbia. My questions for the department are going to be specifically oriented to the Pacific region. We have an overall departmental budget of $1.6 billion. I would like to ask the minister, what percentage of that is spent in the Pacific region?