Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Murray and officials, for being here.
Let me start with a philosophical question because I'm not sure we have a clear answer to it yet. I think it's where Mr. Cuzner was going on his last question.
With respect to Larocque and APPFA, there are two interpretations of it. On the one hand, there's the view, I think held by departmental lawyers and maybe some others, that the use of fish in collaborative arrangements to fund science is something the minister can't do because he doesn't have the legal authority to do it in any statute that applies to it. On the other hand, I think there are some who believe, perhaps a more popular sentiment, that the decision said that it's something he shouldn't do--perhaps in addition to “can't do”--because he doesn't have the moral authority to do it because it's not his fish.
I'm wondering if any of you would like to comment on those two interpretations.