Je m'excuse.
The point is that there are three groups. As Leonard said, there was no recognition of the aboriginal fleet being part of the traditional fleet. Roughly, it meant that instead of being one-third, one-third, one-third, in some cases there was a disproportionate amount given to the temporary access, in the sense that the net result was 30-30-40, as opposed to 33-33-33. There was more given there. Then the concept that you would step even beyond that, into 25-25-50, is not equity by any stretch of the imagination.
Again, you can sit there and play the numbers and say that there are 350 of them and only 37 of us. That's the politics. To some extent that's the vote-buying that got them permanently fixed into place at a time when the resource was sliding off the scale with no sign of a future. It's part of the problem with the politics of the masses. You get people screaming and jumping up and down, and it becomes very difficult to ignore that as we're here today.
The minister didn't accept the 50-50 or the 25-25-50 recommendation, but chose to phase this in with a trigger threshold of 9,700 tonnes. I'll answer some of your questions later about why we didn't speak earlier about that. This was something that was completely contrary to the report. The report said there should be no thresholds, no triggers; just do it. The minister did not accept that. He chose a different path, essentially to put it outside of his mandate to some extent.
Unfortunately, the resource has been determined to be highly cyclical, and although resource abundance is high presently--today--it will inevitably drop again to low levels, regardless of management precautions, so when the minister implemented this, he said, “Listen, I can't implement this now because it's going to collapse, and this is going to create great suffering and economic viability pain to the fleet, but when it goes up, we'll do it then.”
The problem, as we now recognize, is that you can't keep it at that level. You can't make it take off to 30,000 feet and stay there; it's going to go up and it's going to go back down. If you permanently implement a change at this point, you're going to be in the same situation you were five years ago once it goes down again.