Preston Manning wrote an interesting article that was published about six weeks ago and he said that in politics, Canadians are getting increasingly disconcerted because it's a polarized world and the credibility of each side of a discussion withers and there's nobody left to believe.
In this debate, most of us are way less qualified than you to form an opinion on these things, because we're not scientists as you are. Yet we're hearing things like Sonja Saksida, executive director for the B.C. Centre for Aquatic Health Sciences, who said just a couple of hours ago, “veterinarians and professionals manage fish health well in farmed salmon, and B.C. does not see the same incidence of sea lice here“. Brendan, you would say something very different, and certainly Michelle and Catherine would have a different perspective. Then from Tom we hear something radically different.
If I put you into a room, Brendan or Catherine, and argued the other side of the story, that really we don't have a problem, or, Tom, if I had to get you to understand the sincere passion that Catherine is exuding here, how would you answer, and how can we get to a stage where we have some sort of common ground we can move forward from? From our hearings we're going to have to make some recommendations, and I hope someone listens and maybe we can move forward and become the best producer of wild salmon and farmed salmon in the world. That's got to be the goal. How do we get you to hear one another so there's credibility on both sides and we can move forward? I don't know if you can answer that.
Catherine, go for it.