In this document, I think what we're seeing is an acknowledgement that there should be a relationship between the two groups, perhaps a formal one. As an industry rep, what I'm disappointed about is that we were unaware of this coming. Industry should have been at the table to see what we were going to talk about and what the objectives were.
What frightens me is reading this and hearing about bureaucrats sitting in a head office in Ottawa—people who've never been to sea—talking about gear loading and deployment, the professionalization of fishers, and the possibility of linking fishing licences to safety practices criteria and regulations. I find this most alarming.
While l'm a fishermen's rep, I think I have a little better understanding than a lot of those people, and I don't feel comfortable about it on any given day.
So while the paper is new, and we've never seen some of the things in here done this way before, I'm concerned about how they got there, I'm concerned about why they got there, and I'm concerned that we didn't have any input when it was presented to us.
That's the best I can do in terms of speaking to this at this time, because it's new to us as well.