Gardner mentioned that a licence is a licence is a licence. I have some difficulty with that.
The permanent ones have licences. The first nations have licences. The others formed a licence because a licence wasn't given to each of them. It was an allocation to offset their losses in lobster when the abundance was high. They weren't given a licence; it was an allocation.
Is it our fault that it takes 16 allocations to mirror a licence? That's just math. I take exception to that and don't agree with it.