Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I just want to add to your comment about the federal role in the fishery.
The federal government accepted the role, demanded the role to manage the fishery. When they did that, they assumed the responsibility to manage the fishery properly. That includes spending money.
What they're clearly trying to do here is exert jurisdiction over the provinces, over the fishermen, over the communities, but not pay the bill. They want to offload the costs onto the provinces and onto the communities.
The use of the fish, in the way they've done it in Larocque, is clearly an infringement on provincial rights. Fish are not property. The federal government's power to manage fish is management of the fishery, it's not to distribute the fishery as property. So when they come along and say, “Well, use this to fund DFO, use this to fund them”, they're exercising provincial jurisdiction and clearly infringing on provincial powers.