Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Minister, you will agree that two minutes is not very long. I am going to ask two questions; after I finish, you can answer them both, if that is okay with you.
In your presentation, you mentioned the objection procedure that had allowed people to fish within the 200-mile zone and you indicated, if I am not mistaken, that other countries have used an objection procedure that allowed them to continue to fish.
Do you think that the new convention will put an end to that way of operating?
Then, in an explanatory note tabled in the House of Commons in June 2009, the Government of Canada declared that by ratifying the 2009 amendments, Canada would resume its leading role in NAFO reform and in strengthening the governance of the international fishery. Do you agree with that?