Quite frankly, Gerry, you're not doing yourself a favour.
Mr. Chairman, I don't think Gerry is doing himself any favours by saying what he did. I'll be frank. I'll continue to be so whether you like it or not. You heard me: whether you like it or not.
Perhaps I'm just too tired to understand everything, but the tone of that last statement was arrogant. It doesn't make sense. He said: “You don't do your homework. Some people do their homework. I do my homework” and so on. What is this? Sometimes you improvise, you do your homework in other ways. I don't like that tone.
Let's get to the bottom of this now. I still see two priorities: aquaculture in the west, that we'll have to define at some point, and snow crab in the east. Those are the two priorities. I've forgotten about eco-certification, we can't do that study. Unless you can convince me that there's a way of doing three studies at the same time—we already have two to do—I know that the steering committee is going to have problems in submitting a plan to you. However we'll do it. We'll find a way of submitting a plan.
It's 5:20 p.m. and in 20 minutes the bells are going to ring. There is perhaps something else that we could do with the most recent amendment. It would allow us to undertake a study on aquaculture in the west. I don't know if there's a procedure that would allow us to suspend a vote on Mr. Calkins' proposed amendment, so that we could come back to the main motion on the snow crab study and vote on that for once and for all. I guarantee that I will support another study that will be called a study on aquaculture in the west. I don't know exactly what it will be called.
Regardless, we have to stop speaking like this. If you are going to continue in this manner, you can be absolutely certain that that is not how you're going to win any points. It's possible that at times I am not right, but if that is the case tell me.