One of the things that have been looked at in relation to this summit we have set up, Mr. Chair, is that it sounds like an easy way to slough off responsibilities. Actually, it's not. It's a way to bring an awful lot of extra work on yourselves, because people have now been brought to the table. Everybody in the industry has been brought to the table. They are all playing a part, including the committees that are following it. In fact, we left Quebec the other day with three committees being set up: one in harvesting, one in processing, and one in blanket marketing and commercialization generally. They have a short timeframe to come back to us with recommendations on how to deal with the crisis that we face. Undoubtedly they're going to be looking for a quick fix in a lot of cases, because they need it in order to get going for this coming spring, and then for more longer-term solutions.
Mr. Chair, the process we have set up is really a collective one in which the advice is coming right from an area. For those of you who are involved, who are representing ridings, and who can probably tell me what will work in your own riding, I just want to state that this is basically what we tried to narrow it down to. Instead of a blanket situation from Ottawa or from the province, each area has specific requirements. P.E.I. had a great lobster fishery in part of the island, but it was an abysmal failure in other parts. So different solutions are necessary here if we're going to put the fishery on a solid foundation.
I look forward to what comes out of these meetings so that we can zero in on trying to provide some of the solutions that are so necessary.