Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the deputy and to the officials for appearing.
I want to change gears a little bit. It appears to me there's a train coming down the track that could have a very serious impact on the Canadian fishing industry. I'm talking about the whole issue of eco-labelling; more particularly, the work of the Marine Stewardship Council.
It's my understanding, for example, that basically we'll be shut out of the European market unless we find some way to comply with the Marine Stewardship Council provisions. I understand that practically every retailer in the U.K., for example, will not be willing to sell our sockeye salmon and perhaps our pink salmon if we don't find some way to address this issue. The same is true of Germany, Holland, and Switzerland. That will have a significant impact for our west coast fisheries, but I'm guessing it will have a major impact on the east coast as well, before too long.
In terms of the sockeye and the pink, Alaska, which I think is a test case for the Marine Stewardship Council, does have certification at this point. We don't. So we know, I think, who will be selling the fish into those markets.
What can you tell us about that in terms of the department's approach and in terms of what it plans to do to reach those goals? Where in the estimates does it show the money that we're going to be devoting to this issue?