I think our point is that the Government of Canada has more than conservation objectives for its fisheries. Fisheries are a resource. They are adjacent to communities that have the capacity to harvest them for broad social and economic benefits to those communities, and they need public policy instruments to ensure that happens. By focusing exclusively on conservation and ignoring these other aspects, the Government of Canada is not able to deliver on its broad suite of objectives. It took us a long while to go down that road of ITQs, but it doesn't serve the purpose. It doesn't give the results in the broad suite of objectives the government has.
Scotland regained control over their fish resources in the last two years. First they had a review of their fisheries policy, because they found that access to the adjacent resources was not in Scottish hands but in corporations that were elsewhere. They said they had a wide suite of objectives. The current system was not serving that, so they wanted a broad consultation on how they should change things, and one option they're not going to consider is what's there now. They are the first government to do that. We went down this road in the 1990s. It's essentially neo-Liberal ideology and economic theory. It hasn't worked. Hopefully Canada will follow Scotland and step back from that.