Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
This has been a very cordial committee. It's worked well. I want it to stay that way. If it would ever help, I'd take the last few words out, but that would not help. The fact is that what we're saying on this amendment is that we're going to increase the efforts to protect and promote. In my opinion, anybody who knows anything about the seal hunt and the sealing industry knows that we need to protect and promote, because it's in dire straits at the moment. If you want to ask anybody who is involved in the sealing industry—and in fact if you want to ask anybody involved in the fishery itself—how important this is, they'll tell you. The sealing industry is important to a certain group of people, but the seals are overpopulated. The fact is we need the seal hunt, we need the markets, and we need the government to push.
If we do not do it, we're going to hurt the fishing industry in Atlantic Canada, for sure. This needs to happen. If we do not have markets for our pelts, there'll be no seal hunt. They just can't go out for the good of the cause if they cannot sell the pelts. All I wanted to do was to give the government a push to see if we could somehow get markets. We have people excluding us from the seal markets that are involved in the seal hunt.
Anyhow, amen.