Everyone does. If you don't, you shouldn't be here. You should have something in your mind, or why are you doing this?
Thirty years from now you're going to see fewer fish plants. They're going to be super-sized fish plants. You're going to see landing ports.... You're going to be told where to land, not because of your preference. That's my opinion.
Economically, there is not enough money for the government to please everyone. In my opinion, you'll see an eastern and northern--you won't see a central, I guess--southern and western. That's what's going to happen, in my opinion.
There's another thing we have to look at. I was in for the last hour of the other meeting. I don't know if it was mentioned before, but I hope we don't lose perspective with all this. We're caught up in this oil bit. Oil is great, but where is oil going to be 30 years from now? Hibernia--there's going to be a plug in that, right? We have a renewable resource worth a billion dollars, and a billion dollars is a lot of money, so let's look after it.
We have our elected officials. Mr. Manning has done great things, and we appreciate it, but someone has to take the wisdom. You're elected to do this stuff, along with our input, so you have to look at it. You should be telling us what there is going to be 30 years down the road, and naturally get our opinion, and here it is. As Pat just said, who is going to stand up and say it? Are you going to say “Old Perlican, sorry, we can't put any more money into your community, you have to go to Carbonear”?
It's going to happen. Right now the biggest boat you can have is 90 feet, and if she has a full-time licence of 300,000 right now, that's 600,000. That's probably going to be 1.2 million with refrigerated holds like you see. Where that boat goes to tie up, it doesn't care. All they are concerned about is getting that hold filled, getting into port, and getting the cash. We all know what the world is about, right? The world is about money and sex, so that's it.