Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Poirier, thank you for your remarks.
I'm interested in the fact that in the Îles de la Madeleine we're dealing with a short-term crisis, obviously a price crisis. There are really only two ways to deal with that. You've got to get money into the hands of fishermen either by price support or income support, or through another mechanism like EI.
These are my two questions. Number one, do you see any way of doing something through the EI program, by modifications or changes? And number two, looking at the agriculture industry and the occasional price supports that exist there, what aspects of that model would you see potentially being applicable to lobster prices? And three, while you are making notes there, do you know if in Maine, where they have a big lobster industry as well, the Americans are doing anything to support their lobster fishermen? Obviously they must be affected by the prices too.