You have raised a couple of things. I just want to address them one at a time.
For one thing, you asked whether organizations have invested in other economic opportunities in places such as the Magdalen Islands. I'm going to let Dr. Lavigne speak to that from IFAW's perspective, but the answer is absolutely yes. Some industries have been successfully developed; others have been turned down.
Organizations have stepped forward saying they would be willing to contribute to a licence retirement program; however, we cannot do so until the federal government wants to end the commercial seal hunt, because until you cap the licences and say you're not going to issue more licences, a licence retirement program will not mean an end of commercial sealing. What we may do is get rid of one generation of sealers and have an entire new demographic step into its place.
What we want to do is have a licence retirement program that the federal works with us on to implement, to end the commercial seal hunt. As you know, there are wealthy people all over the world who have been discussing this and discussing contributing the funds towards it.
That said, I do believe—