The federal government has been involved in the industry renewal strategy. They've worked around some of the capital gains issues.
I think the MOU resulted from a dispute that happened around the pricing of shrimp. The season didn't get under way last July, and as a result parties agreed that.... I don't know if passive is the correct word; I used it a number of times in this presentation. But it's got to a point where we cannot allow discussions to just continue and continue.
I've said a number of times that an evolution is taking place in the fishing industry in this province. We can either engage in that evolution and try to offset some of the suffering that people are going to encounter along the way, or we can just let it naturally evolve and let people suffer for the next 10 or 15 years. So this MOU came about as a means to be more aggressive in trying to move the issues along that we know are pertinent to restructuring.
An R and D program for the fishing industry was part of the industry renewal strategy, as well as funding to provide occupational health and safety to address a workforce adjustment program. These were the goals of the program. But if we're going to get into a workforce adjustment program, that means there have to be more aggressive moves on how we're going to restructure this industry. I think this MOU process has evolved as a means to attempt to move the process along faster.