Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here.
I have three questions I'd like to ask, to Mr. Barnes, Mr. Decker, and then Mr. McCurdy.
Mr. Barnes, you talked about access to skilled labour and we've talked about the transition in the fleet, but there's the other side of this, which is the skilled labour working in our processing plants—as you commented, the electrician. Immigration is not going to solve all this problem. I think we know that. There was a survey done recently in New Brunswick where 85% of the seniors would like to continue working as long as there wasn't a disincentive to do that, and some of our seniors are people who stay in our small rural communities.
The question for you is what thoughts do you have on incentives that may be in place that would allow some of our seniors to continue working, to keep that labour pool? That's the first question.
For the second question, as an accountant I'm interested in all things financial, so Mr. Decker, you talked a little bit about the individual tax implications. I wonder if you might take a few minutes to expand on that.
And Mr. McCurdy, you started bringing up in one of the questions the traps and the pot survey in post-season in conjunction with DFO. The question I want to ask, associated with this, is since that is done at the close of the season, is there potential for us to start having a discussion about earlier signals to the fishing community about what the tax should be for a coming year, as opposed to the week before?
Those are my three questions.