Thank you.
I really appreciate the fact that you have come down here to listen to our views and our concerns. It's a shame--I mean today, April 1. I'd call it the second day of the opening of the season in LFA 34, because every fisherman can set 25 extra traps today, and they're all out there. It's been windy for a week. Anyway, Roger and I, as fishermen, have made it.
I am president of the Maritime Fishermen's Union, Local 9, which is southwest Nova Scotia. I've been working on somewhat of a proposal. I have to say that Senator Comeau called me last fall in regard to what was happening with the industry and how we could work about it and how we could possibly improve it. I have to admit, when December comes around and you get a call from Ottawa from Senator Comeau, my first instinct was “Hey, I've heard that the Prime Minister is looking for people to sit in the Senate”.