Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister and your deputy, for appearing.
I'll start with a few questions, and my colleagues might have some as well.
I appreciate the information you've given us so far. I'm still a little confused about the relationship between the fisheries renewal process and the subsequent MOU. It's my understanding that the federal government is sort of intimately involved in the fisheries renewal process, and within the fisheries renewal policy framework an effort will be made to address the issue of rationalization. That's being developed as part of fisheries renewal.
Is that still ongoing? Did the MOU sort of develop out of that? You say that DFO has some people sitting there, but they're not involved and not signatories to this MOU. Perhaps you can clarify for me a little better how the two things work.