Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll try to be brief. I know that we're up against the clock.
Just to be clear, Mr. McCurdy, I think it's fair enough to say, “We don't like the policy and we think the government should think about changing it.” But it seems to me it would be a kind of revisionist history to say, “We didn't think that this could ever lead to a day when quotas would actually be reduced.” Because in 1997 I do see a letter in which you acknowledged that “in the event of a decline in future TAC, the share for the inshore sector would be reduced accordingly, possibly to zero”.
You say that you've raised this concern in recent years, but if you have the documentation where you've challenged LIFO and the interpretation of it in 1997, 2003, and 2007, those are the documents that I think we would benefit from seeing—