Once again, there's a parallel with the present situation with the dockside monitoring program. Right now, we work under a contract with DFO and all our work is aimed at responding directly in the best way we can to DFO needs, which are stated in general contract terms but also in seasonal requirements for each fishery. Once again, there are many changes to the requirements during the fishery.
The fishery is managed on a day-to-day basis and requirements change all the time. The hardest part of our work right now is to keep up with those changes, as the DFO provides us with new instructions about data-gathering procedures or deployment strategies, etc.
If the contractual link between the government, the DFO, and the companies is lost, as in the proposed reform, if I do have a contract with a fleet and the DFO comes and asks me to do some things that are not in my contract with the company, what do you think I'll say to the DFO? I think the answer is obvious.