Probably five days after being appointed, I met with European journalists in St. John's to hear more on the seal hunt and to educate them. I spent an hour or an hour and a half answering questions from the European journalists, in order to penetrate the public of Europe in those regards.
Over the last three weeks or so, we've been looking at a very comprehensive advocacy plan, a trip that would take us to five cities, in five countries—Brussels, London, Berlin, the Hague, and Vienna. It will be over a 13-day period. We're leaving on the 24th or the 25th of this month, at the latest, and we're not getting back until the sixth.
A variety of activities will be held within each area, in conjunction with our people overseas arranging this. There will be participation by Nunavut. They've had discussions with other provinces and other stakeholders in areas on this particular thing. To my knowledge, I think it's funded through the DFAIT budget as an initiative to deal with this.
We've been working on something more comprehensive in that regard for a number of weeks. I would say it has been a significant part of the last three-week period, preparing and seeing what's most strategic, listening to stakeholders here, listening to exporters that may have an impact on it, and those types of areas. It's getting as much input as possible. It's fairly detailed. There's been a fair amount of effort put forward in that regard, and it has taken up a significant amount of time over the last month.