Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to welcome Ambassador Sullivan and the officials.
It is nice to see him here. I have every confidence he will bring his good work ethic to this position, as he's done with other positions in which he has performed in our province. I say that very sincerely and in a non-partisan way.
I want to go back to the custodial management comments that have been made and I guess fisheries management regimes and management systems. In your remarks and preamble, and then in answer to questions, you alluded to trying to get the same kind of management system or regime in place outside the 200 as we have inside.
I think for most of us who have waded in on the custodial management argument over the years, this is basically what we were pursuing. If we could get all contracting partners of NAFO to fish under the same system, especially one that was acceptable to Canada, then we pretty much would be where we wanted to be.
My question on that aspect of it all is this. Do you anticipate that if you can ever get the contracting partners to that point, where we have a system the same outside as we do inside, that they will share the cost of the system, or would Canada have to pick up most of the tab to get us there?