Thank you, gentlemen, for returning.
Welcome, Ms. Bexton. We're glad to have you here.
I think we had most of our questions answered the other day, but let me start by saying that our understanding is that the reason we're dealing with this legislation is for us to be able to ratify the port state measures agreement. It requires some change to our domestic legislation in order to do that. As you said, Mr. Rosser, although it may not be a big problem here, IUU fishing within Canadian waters is a significant international problem and we want to be good citizens of the world.
Following up on where Mr. Cleary started, and I think it's a valid question, I am wondering, if for some reason we don't get to 25—we get stuck at 20—and this port state measures agreement never comes into force, if there is anything in these amendments to the Coastal Fisheries Protection Act where we would say that if we'd known this agreement was never going to be in force, we wish we hadn't done that.
Is there anything in this bill that should concern us? We want to be a participant and a good citizen and ratify the port state measures agreement, and I know we're using our influence to do as much as we can to ensure it does come into force, but if it doesn't, is there anything in here that would make our life more difficult, or if we'd known that it wasn't going to come into force, we'd wish we hadn't done something to our domestic legislation?