Those are good questions. I will let Mr. Balfour and Mr. Stringer give more detailed answers on this, but I can tell you where it came from.
The department has been looking at its suite of policies for a number of years now. You may all know that we are in constant consultation with our stakeholders to make sure that the policy suite we have is actually legitimate and suitable to their needs. So when we began—I think it was in 2007—there were 40 such meetings across the country, to start the discussion around various policies. Then we announced the modernization within the strategic review, which led to some changes and some concerns on the part of our fishers, because there hadn't been a lot of consultation.
Once the announcements were made around strategic review, we reignited the consultation process to really discuss how we can better support the future of the fishery through our policies. We all know it's very complicated, and there are myriad rules, and we need to see if there is any possibility of reaching a consensus on our way forward in a world that is very much changing.
So it stems from both an ongoing consultation system we have with our stakeholders and the implementation of strategic review. Mr. Stringer and Mr. Balfour led these consultations, and Ms. Mithani was also there to make sure we could provide science-based answers.
I don't know, Mr. Chair, if you would like some further details on that.