In the remaining time I have, to the Independent Fish Harvesters' Federation, Mr. McDonald brought up a good point and said that even on the Atlantic coast he feels the owner-operator and fleet separation policies may not be working as well as he would like.
I think that on the west coast, we're not even close to that. We have ITQs, individual transfer quotas. The issue in the past has been essentially the concentration of power and accumulation of licences, i.e., fish and access to fish. In other words, excluding other fishermen from fishing is the issue.
That's a real problem. I've heard loud and clear about the issue about slipper skippers, those who have little to no interest in the fishery and are perhaps interested just in their financial benefit. We're talking about a philosophy of how we allow....
What I heard clearly was fish are part of the commons. They belong to the people of Canada, and they want access. That's what I think we're discussing. Who should get access? In the remaining seconds, Mr. Allain, could you comment on that?