But it's disturbing that we actually have a search-and-destroy mission to catch these lobsters, to make sure they're taken out of the food chain, to make sure they don't infect or get into the human food chain, when there's certainly nothing preventing codfish from eating juvenile lobsters and then getting into the food chain.
There is an issue here. It's one that obviously has been ignored or at least passed off to other departments up to this point, so I thank you for raising that issue.
I have a little frustration with government when government says they can't do anything because it's not their jurisdiction or it's not their department. Instead, if you have a problem with gypsum or sediment in the water and you can take it out of the pipe before it gets there, then that's the cost of doing business. That's the cost of doing business for the fertilizer plant, and they have an obligation to take that gypsum out before it gets into the ocean. I may disagree somewhat with your comments on how much that pollutes the ocean, how big that footprint is, what that causes, but the point is that there is no need for it to be there. That's something we can do something about, and we could certainly make a recommendation on it and the other heavy metals as well. Anyway, I just wanted to make those observations.
I very much appreciate you folks coming today, and I thank Monsieur Blais for bringing this issue before us. You can see the struggle we have between DFO, the Department of the Environment, and jurisdictions. It's not simple.
Thank you very much.
We're adjourned.