Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Wallace, there have been a number of panels and studies and reports over the years. Since 1992 there have been at least four others. In 1992, when half a million sockeye went missing, Minister Crosbie looked at it. In 1994, when over a million and a half went missing, Minister Tobin looked at. In 2002, Minister Thibault pulled a panel together, and in 2004, when one and a half million to two million sockeye missing, Minister Regan looked at it.
In your opinion, what will be different about this inquiry under Minister Shea and Justice Cohen? Specifically, there have been all of these recommendations made by previous panels and studies. One could probably argue that had those been implemented, they may have prevented this problem.
I have a two-part question. First, is that the case? In other words, had the recommendations of previous panels been implemented, could we have avoided this problem?
Secondly, how will this inquiry be different from the previous ones, in terms of getting to the root of the problem and ideally avoiding it in the future and putting us on a path of protecting our wild salmon?