Strictly speaking, perhaps the department is correct; but practically speaking, they're wrong. And the reason for that is that the Larocque decision takes away the mechanism whereby people could contribute on a voluntary basis. If, for instance, we take the example of roe herring, which we were talking about earlier, you have 1,550 licence-holders and you have no practical or legal mechanism by which you could get those people to contribute. So we are at a complete impasse here. There is no short-term solution, because the mechanism has been lost to us.
On May 3rd, 2007. See this statement in context.