Well, I don't think you have time for me to elaborate. Remember, even though I haven't been an active politician for some years, I still have all of the problems that go with being a politician. I don't want somebody to have to get up and say, “Listen, there are three things every politician or ex-politician should know, and that is: stand up, speak up, and shut up.” So I'll be very short.
Clare Backman has been one of the most effective leaders in the fish farm industry in trying to find ways to minimize the impact of fish farms on wild fish and on the environment. As far as we're concerned, he should get very high praise for that.
Now, in terms of the details of what needs to be done to achieve some of these things, we don't have time to go into all of that here. But it has to be done in collaboration with the science, the industry, first nations, environmentalists, and ultimately--ultimately--there has got to be a recognition on the part of both the Government of Canada and the Province of British Colombia that without coming along and changing the Constitution, by agreement both the province and the federal government can work out ways to do everything that we've been talking about.
I don't believe for one minute that it can all be done just under the constitutional authority of the Department of Fisheries, and I certainly don't think it can be done under the administrative authority of the province alone. They have to work together.
But John Weston, in short answer, what we tried to do with the establishment of the science advisory committee was to say to them, okay, now go out and collaborate with everybody in order to get the maximum input so that the reports you give us will be accurate and will have taken into account the sometimes very different views of some very able people.
That's the best I can do to a complex question; we can't get into all the detail. But collaboration is absolutely essential.