Mr. Chair, I think I understand the motivation behind this, and all of us as committee members are supportive of the seal hunt.
In light of the very recent action of the European Parliament in their motion to ban importation, I wonder whether we should include comment on that in this motion. I would be prepared to amend this motion by replacing the rest of the paragraph after “the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans fully endorses the harp seal hunt” with this: that the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans fully endorses the harp seal hunt and strongly condemns the ban of Canadian seal products by the European Union despite overwhelming evidence in support of its sustainability, humaneness, and value to thousands of coastal Canadian families.
That would be my amendment.