That's the basis of our whole point. We believe our Fisheries Act and the Government of Canada in its approach to fisheries should consider this as a resource, and that's what the courts have said. The government and the minister have to see fisheries as a resource that the government conserves, manages, and develops in the public interest and for the benefit of Canadians. That is pretty close to a sustainable development approach, and the Canadian government is committed to sustainable development.
That was a big breakthrough at the UNCED meeting, the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, when they said going down the road of just economic development doesn't sense. You have to have social development and you have to protect the environment. You need all three of those things. That's why Roméo LeBlanc was way ahead of his time. He took a sustainable development approach before it was a concept that was broadly made popular in Rio. That's what we need.
We have an act right now that's just focused on conservation. We know where this happened. It happened because of the cuts that were made. There was the fiscal crisis of the government in the mid-1990s, and you had to cut. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans looked at that and said they were just going to focus on conservation and que le diable m'emporte le reste.