Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister and Mr. Lewis, I appreciate both of you appearing before the committee and providing your remarks. They are very helpful.
Building on my colleagues' questions, I wanted to pick up where you basically left off there, on the management structure, because the two questions that I asked earlier to a different panel had to do with, again, the management and the marketing side of things.
You've presented the situation, and we hear clearly that it's too many harvesters going after too few resources, essentially. You've presented the Alaskan model. We've also talked a little bit about the cooperative model. So there have been a number of suggestions or, I guess, possible management structures that have been proposed. I'm just wondering about how you see the interaction among your level of government, the industry, the community, and the federal government in terms of getting to that ideal situation or a possible way forward.
You left off with talking about the MOU and the process that's unfolding now, and then it seemed like there would be a coming forward at some point in time, where there would be an ask. Is there a way in which we could look at involving the federal government now rather than later? Could you comment on that? Then I'll come back to....
And, sorry, there's one other thing I wanted to talk about and emphasize on the management side of things, and that is moving toward value added or looking at increasing the value for what is harvested now. I think there was an acknowledgement earlier this morning that we need to move in that direction. Could you provide a comment on how you think that could happen?