Mr. Chairman, I lost confidence in NAFO many years ago. The most frustrating years of my public service career were spent sitting around the NAFO table. The final indignity in the late nineties was to reach a point where even our closest ally, the Japanese, was voting against measures proposed by Canada.
The solution is not to have no effective management outside 200 miles. There must be effective management. What I'm saying is that NAFO, in its present form, won't fit the bill and that the proposed measures won't either.
So I think Canada basically needs to go back to the drawing board and take all the time it requires to construct an organization that will work. That's my view.
Thank you.