Mr. Paradis, it seems to me you've articulated something that sometimes inflames the situation among fishermen. You've both testified that more than once DFO has been wrong. But the precautionary principle should remain wholly that it's better to be wrong and that there are more fish than wrong and there are no fish.
The consequence of imposing a moratorium on the southern gulf would probably result in about $10 million lost to the economy. Yet there seems to be the approach that if you're wrong, that's great, because it means there were more fish there than what you anticipated, and we'll have better fisheries in years to come. But there would still be $10 million in lost revenue, of economic activity.
When is DFO going to come to the point, when articulating the precautionary principle, where you also say you are going to impose upon yourselves a discipline to put in place the scientific scrutiny to make sure you get it right? Right now you're simply shrugging your shoulders and saying, “If we get it right, we get it right. If we get it wrong, we get it wrong. But we'll always err on the side of caution.” When is science going to be factored into this more?