I'll never say.
I'd like to welcome our witnesses, and I'm certainly delighted with the opportunity to come and visit your community and for the invitation from Mr. Blais. He has given us a great initiation into your home and your cuisine, and we've enjoyed it tremendously.
As Mr. Matthews touched on, coming from Newfoundland and Labrador, I know how important the seal hunt is to you people here, as much as it is to our own province.
I would just like to take a slightly different edge to some of my questions, which relate to protesters on the ice interfering with your place of work and your work. I'd like to know if you have some experience with that and what your views are on whether government should be permitting these people to be on the ice or issuing permits for them to be on the ice.
Also, I would like someone to comment on the hakapik, which has been in the news lately. Some comments have been made about the use of it--its future use. It may become an issue.
My last question.... You decide who wants to answer. I think it was Mr. Boudreau who commented on the system in Newfoundland by 2008. There was some discussion on that in our Newfoundland meetings in regard to processing. Could you elaborate on the concerns you have there? Because there are also concerns in Newfoundland and Labrador about what may happen in 2008 in relation to processing.
So whoever wants to can take those couple of questions.