We have the full sovereignty to do it. What changes is that NAFO now has a lever. NAFO now has the thin edge of the wedge. The European Union knows this. They will use it.
I ask you to recall what I said about what Chairman Arias Cañete said. They believe that for a straddling stock the distant water high seas state should have an equal right in the management of the totality of that stock, inside and out. That is their belief. That is their objective. They want to have a say in what we do inside our 200-mile zone.
Now, they didn't get the clause exactly as they liked it, because we were able to put in all of these request clauses to it, but it's still there. How can they get it? It's very easy within a NAFO context.
Many of these experts who've talked to you may not have been within a NAFO negotiating room, but when you have the heads of delegations sitting around in a room trying to come up with a consensus package.... Just look at the last meeting in Bergen. Just imagine it. The Scientific Council said the Greenland halibut quota should be lower and the 3M cod quota should be lower.
The Canadian industry wants the quota on Greenland halibut higher because they're making a lot of money off it, so to heck with conservation, and Canada will go along with a higher quota. The EU in this case says no to that and says we should take the scientific advice and have a lower quota, but the EU wants a higher quota on 3M cod.
What does Canada do? The outcome of the meeting is that there's a higher quota on 3M cod, which is what the EU wanted, and there's a rollover of the Greenland halibut quota, which is what Canada wanted. That's a trade-off, because that's the way things are done.
One day it may come down to them simply saying this. If Canada wants a lower quota on a straddling stock and the European Union can't accept a lower quota on the stock because the catch rates are so poor outside 200 miles, they'll say that if Canada lets them fish their quota inside 200 miles, then maybe they'll accept a lower quota. So for conservation reasons, Canada, wanting a lower quota, will say, “Okay, you can now come in and fish within our waters.” I mean, that's the way this can happen.