Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for being here. It's always good to be out in this direction. I'm also from British Columbia, as some of you know. It's my first time to Cape Breton, so I appreciate the chance to be here.
You made a point near the end, Josephine, that since the independent report in 2004, I guess it was, and then the decision of the minister of the day accepting the recommendations, as you put, that everyone accepted that as the way to go. Is that really the case? That's not the information I've heard, that it has remained contentious since 2005. I think you have said that everyone thought that was fine, the traditional fleet as well, and they were just reluctant to get there, hoping that the quota didn't hit that magic plateau. We will have an opportunity to ask the other sides of this debate as well as the DFO officials involved, which we will do.
Is that your perspective, as you've said, that everyone liked the arrangement as laid out in that report?