In some respects, depending on developments in regional fish management organizations to which we are party, this bill could conceivably make a helpful contribution to bringing some scrutiny to the import of shark fins, but it won't do so in the near term, the reason being that if regional fish management organizations to which we are currently party chose to develop a catch certification system for shark fins or for any other fish, or marine products for that matter, this bill would enable us to adopt regulations that would mean that the certification regime would have to be respected for products being imported into Canada.
Only in that circumstance, which hasn't happened in any of the RFMOs to which we are party, this bill might be helpful. But no, the bill isn't designed, in and of itself, as drafted to provide systematic scrutiny to the import of shark fins into Canada.
Canada has had for a long time, 20 years or thereabouts, a robust domestic regime to ensure that shark finning does not take place in Canadian waters. But the bill wouldn't address the issue of bringing systematic scrutiny to the import of shark fins into Canada.