Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am not worrying as much about the success or failure of this particular motion as I am worrying about the survival and development of the fishing industry.
I think the problem with my colleague Mr. Byrne's motion is that it presents the government with an offer it must refuse. The government and ACOA are not going to restore full funding, but if we provided more flexibility in our motion, we could achieve our goals.
It's clear that none of us is very satisfied with the notice that was given and things like that, so I'm on board with much of what's behind your motion, Mr. Byrne. I do think, though, that if we provide more flexibility, if there are different ways in which the government can, for instance, provide six months' funding with conditions or 12 months' funding with conditions, or things like that, we're more likely to succeed in what all of us desire to achieve here. But this is going to fail. If we allow the motion as you've drafted it to proceed, it will go nowhere.