That's an interesting point. We don't know right away, at the beginning of when a new species has entered into the Great Lakes system, if it's actually going to do harm. We might be able to guess from previous experience elsewhere, but we're not entirely sure what impact it will have in the Great Lakes ecosystem.
The only way to really know is through observation over time, and previous witnesses who have come to this committee have said that sometimes those changes can happen fairly rapidly, where entire species are almost wiped out in a 10-year period and the new invasive species has actually taken over. So I'm just curious about this. If we can't know ahead of time what's an invasive species and which ones are going to do harm, and if we get back to the changes that are being proposed by the Conservative government to actually remove the protection of fish habitat and that, as Mr. Kamp correctly pointed out, we're only going to be interested—according to the new Fisheries Act—in situations of serious harm to commercially important fish, or recreationally important fish, or aboriginal fisheries....
So whenever we're going to be speaking to fisheries that are actually going to be covered under the changes to the Fisheries Act, how do we know ahead of time? Do you have the resources to know today what's going to be an invasive species, and if the federal government isn't going to support you, how is the Ontario ministry going to be able to handle this, especially with the cutbacks that are going to occur?