My original motion has indeed been amended. That's it. There's not much I can do about that. I would have liked to have a negative vote nullifying the NAFO convention right here and now so we can send a clear message to the international community that we are not accepting a loss of Canadian sovereignty inside the 200-mile limit. That has not occurred.
Now we, as Liberal members, have to deal with this as it currently exists. We will be voting in favour of this, and since there are 21 additional sitting days, the government, from the fisheries minister on down, has guaranteed us it will not ratify this treaty until a bare minimum of at least 42 sitting days of the House have lapsed, hopefully even longer—because, of course, as the minister pointed out, it's a minimum of 21 days; she finally provided a clarification.
Hopefully the New Democratic Party, or maybe even the Bloc, will use a supply day, which is available to them. Since we now have time, there's an opportunity for the New Democratic Party to use a supply day, an opposition day, in the House of Commons to actually bring this to the floor of the House of Commons. I would encourage my colleague Mr. Stoffer to do so.