Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
There are two things. First of all, the Embassy newspaper came out on Monday, and I suggest every committee member get a copy of it. It's not often that you see all members of the House of Commons, the critics, and the minister talk about one issue with such solidarity. It's in regard to the seal harvest. There are four great articles in there, and it would be really good for all of us to have a read of that. The unanimous support we have for the harvest is really something we can be proud of.
Secondly, I was in Washington on Thursday and Friday. I was at a store in Georgetown. On the storefront was a huge poster of a whitecoat. On the back of it, it says that Canadians are skinning alive these seals for their pelts. The chairman has a picture of the postcard, which Mr. Bevan has seen before. They come from Canada. Of course it's simply wrong what they're saying, so I went in there and I questioned the lady about her motives on that. She told me that I seemed to know a lot about seals. I told her who I was and she got all red-faced and embarrassed and admitted that this poster comes from Canada.
This poster is so deliberately misleading that it wouldn't hurt.... I've just talked to Mr. Bevan about it, and he has a couple of words he'd like to say about it as well. But if the committee agrees later on, maybe the chair of the committee, on behalf of the committee, could write that company a letter and tell them that this is very, very misleading about what happens on the ice out there.
Thank you so much.