With all this excitement of talking about buyouts, I was thinking of introducing a private member's bill and maybe buying out a few of my Conservative and Liberal colleagues. I just jest when I say that. When I hear Mr. MacAulay talk about retirement, I wonder if he is talking about himself or something else.
Thank you once again, gentlemen. There is a fundamental problem. I think in the Magdalens here...we're going to hear it in Nova Scotia, we're going to hear it in New Brunswick. DFO has talked about it, industry has talked about it, our committee has talked about it, and the Senate committee has talked about it. Everyone is in agreement that you have to reduce the effort. How it happens obviously is a discussion, but the reality is that you can reduce the effort and protect the resource, but if no one is buying it, it's still a problem for those who are behind. You have 250 fishermen, and if you go down to 175 fishermen, for argument's sake, if no one is buying the lobster you have the same fundamental problem of the market conditions.
I guess my question for you is this. As a fisherman who has been working for 35 years now and fishing lobsters, what advice would you give us to give to the government on any unique ways of marketing lobsters other than what has already been proposed by various government officials and by the companies? What would you like to see done in terms of marketing that lobster so that we could tell the world and Canadians that this is a healthy, wonderful Canadian product that should be enjoyed by everybody--without a seafood allergy, of course? What would you do?