Yes.
In 2006, the Federal Court of Appeal, in the Larocque case, held that the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans didn't have the authority to use fish for financing. Among other things, the court held that the minister, by deciding to pay a contracting party the proceeds of the sale of fish was utilizing a resource that didn't belong to him for funding Fisheries and Oceans undertakings. The court found that this was an action that the federal crown couldn't perform unless we made an amendment such as the one that's being proposed here today.