Thank you, Chair.
I want to get back to something that was said earlier when Mr. Kamp brought up the idea that the policy was developed in 1997 and carried forward and the minister today is carrying forward that policy.... I think Mr. McCurdy brought up a pertinent point when he said that in the case of the crab harvesters and the difference between the supplementary fleet and the full-time harvesters at the time, the courts ruled that the hands of the minister should not be tied and therefore made that decision.
It's not like that decision was recent. It was quite some time ago. Therefore, in this particular situation, it wasn't even mentioned from 1997, which they go back to. think this was a fundamental decision that you could share the pain all around, which is what we have been arguing for, and certainly the courts even said that we should look at this.
I want to go to Mr. Barnes first.
In your submission, you speak of adjacency and your membership. At one point, as you said, you did get a catch from the offshore. Even if you did have that catch, do you feel that this business of LIFO is as important now and that it is not fair for the individual members?