Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Mr. Sullivan, for appearing today, and the departmental staff.
Sir, just to back up a bit, you mentioned the seal hunt twice in your presentation. As you're aware, this committee is about to finalize its report on the seal harvest, and we're very, very cautious not to use the word “hunt”. So I respectfully ask that in your position you refer to it as a harvest. A “hunt” just brings up so many red flags to those, who we call environmentalists, who are opposed to any hunting, period. The sealing, in our view, and any fishing of stock out there, is a harvest. I respectfully ask that you use the word “harvest” in your deliberations, especially in international discussions.
The second part, sir, is that you were previously finance minister in the Newfoundland and Labrador government. Is that correct?