Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome, gentlemen.
This eco-certification has always concerned me. I understand—well, I guess I probably do not understand science—that it's always difficult. It's easy to blame scientists and it's easy to blame a lot of people. But I have a number of concerns about eco-certification. Just for one example is the lobster stocks on the south side of Prince Edward Island. I think some of you will be aware of this. Not last year but the previous five years before that, the catch was very small. Last year, the catch was fairly large.
My concern about eco-certification is that the bodies that are informing—whatever body makes the eco-certification decision, and who gets it, and who does not, and who has the label, and who does not—would have a difficult time giving certification to the lobster fishery on the south coast of Prince Edward Island in the last five years, excluding last year.
Would I be correct? How would you get around that…because you're just human beings. I think it's great to be able to criticize government, not that I do it, but the fact is eco-certification has taken the control of what happens in the fishery away from the government.
Am I out to lunch or am I correct?