Well, I'll just note that Ms. Joan Reid, the acting area director of the eastern Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Oceans, disagrees with you. According to her letter to every crab fisherman, there was a contract. The acting area director says that the fifty-fifty sharing arrangement recommended by the advisory panel on access to allocation in 2005 will be going ahead in 2009. She said that. She made that commitment to every crabber one month before you tore up the contract.
Madam Minister, $15 million was allocated last year for a lobster industry income support program. The deadline for the program is now long past. Could you tell us how much of the $15 million was spent? Of this, how much was spent on payments to fishermen and how much was spent on overhead by DFO?
I'll turn the remainder of my time over to Mr. Dhaliwal.