Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Hopefully, I won't take all of the seven minutes. I'll share it with my colleague Mr. Cleary.
Thank you very much to our guests. I appreciate your being here.
As you know, the New Democratic Party is certainly well aware of the potential value of this particular trade deal. Working with a country like Europe, in terms of standards and values and principles, is something about which we're very interested in trying to find out all the details, so we know exactly what it is we're working with.
We certainly, from my perspective as a Nova Scotian member of Parliament, have paid a lot of attention to potential positive impacts as they relate to the fishery and other sectors. But I want to also add that we're all aware of the history over the past 100 or so years of the difficult relationship between European fishing nations and Canada, our coastal communities. So there are some questions we need to explore a bit further.
I would also add, as Mr. Kerr has talked about, regarding the lobster industry and the maritime panel report that just came down, that if we have more opportunity out there to market the product, now's the time for the industry, with the help of governments, to figure out how best to access that in a way that's sustainable for the resources and that benefits coastal communities.
Anyway, I wanted to ask you one specific question, and that was regarding access of fishing vessels to our ports and the question we've had over the years of monitoring vessels suspected of fishing illegally in international waters. I wondered if you could just expand a little further on what it is we've agreed to.