To start, I'd like to comment that I'm a fisherman, and what happens to us is that when the fishing quota comes out every year, it's 72 hours before we go out on the sea. If something bad happens in that period of time, I don't have time to turn around and find myself another job, because I'm a seasonal worker. On the Gaspé coast we are nearly all seasonal workers.
I can always work somewhere else, but if I find out two weeks before the fishing opens that I'm going to have about four weeks' work, and my chômage, my UI, is going to finish in about four or five weeks, I don't have time to turn around and find myself another job. All the other jobs are probably taken. Everything else has already started.
The other problem we had when we had the announcement is that a crab fisherman is a company, so when we put down the quota, the first line of action the captain had was to lay off people. The second action, for the ones that he kept, was to reduce the workload, so he gave us maybe four or five weeks of salary.
That's what I have to tell you today.