Working on that proposal is not good enough. That is a time bomb. What's holding the smallmouth bass back from the Miramichi, I've been told, is a rack or a net. If there's a major flood, look out.
In terms of our Atlantic salmon report that this committee did, I want to commend all members of this committee. It was a very comprehensive report, and it was universal. When I look at the minister's response to the report, given that it was probably written by the department.... We had a major recommendation, number 9, where we talked about “a recovery plan to rebuild” the “stocks to, at minimum, 1975 levels”. My colleague Mr. Arnold insisted on that, yet when I see the minister's response, the words “recovery” and “rebuild” do not appear. Why is that?