That's all it took.
I would like to welcome everybody here. I feel as though I've been flailing away as an Albertan—as the only prairie boy on this committee—for a couple of years and am going to waste all my time in joy, rather than getting to these questions.
But let me get to the point.
I want to talk about the funding for the central and Arctic region. When the bureaucrats come before us, the funding we hear about for the central and Arctic is considerably less than that for the other regions. That goes without saying.
In your testimony, Mr. Linington, you've indicated that there are all kinds of issues around landing of fish, not having the proper authorities, and fish getting basically put in the bush because it doesn't store like grain on the prairies, as you well know.
In previous testimony, we also heard from fishermen, when we were in Manitoba talking about this issue in the first round of testimony, that the Freshwater Fish Marketing Act is something else that particularly separates the freshwater fishery from the saltwater fisheries. Could you give this committee any advice on how the lack of harbours impacts upon the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation on how the corporation affects your fishery, and on what we should be looking at as a committee to make recommendations to the government?
This committee will be tasked with doing something different once this report is over, and it would be my desire to have the committee take a look at the relevance of the Freshwater Fish Marketing Act and the corporation to see whether they still make sense for freshwater fishermen.