So if I understand you correctly, this committee was told that this provision was necessary to give Canada the legal option to invite other countries to cooperate on valuable scientific activities inside the exclusive economic zone. But what we're hearing now is that this is not actually the case. We can do that now if we so desire through the signing of bilateral and multilateral memoranda of understanding or treaties.
What's puzzling me is this: if that was the basis on which this was derived, why are management measures included? We're going well beyond the realm of scientific discovery. The convention specifically includes management and enforcement measures. That's quite off-scale with what this committee was told was necessary.