It's all right. I'm guilty of it myself on occasion.
From my own point of view, I am concerned. Of course I am. Every time there is an animal rights or animal welfare group, no matter if it's our party or some other party, it always concerns me, given the fact that in my riding, as described by you, has a lot of hunting and not just as sustenance. There's also a cultural aspect to it.
I've been here 14 years, Mr. Sopuck, and I've been dealing with it. I'm always alarmed by some of the....
I understand if there are some Criminal Code changes that they may want in order to deal with domestic animals, domestic pets, and so on and so forth. If that's how they want to address that, that's fine. But I'm always the one to throw up the guard at the beginning and say let's not delve into what's perceived to be bad practices by people who for commercial reasons harvest animals and for cultural reasons harvest animals. My voice is only one of many, but it's a voice that I always put out there to defend, from a cultural aspect and a commercial aspect, the harvesting of any animals.
I'd like to point out that when I was in Europe, we successfully convinced rural politicians in Europe that when they brought it in that they would not want to harvest animals such as seals with firearms, they made a change, because all of a sudden they realized that back home, 90% of the hunt was done by firearms. We pointed out to them that if they outlaw the harvesting of animals, based on what they feel is cruel, with firearms, it will be all of these hunts for all animals. We overturned the vote. A lot of these of politicians turned back.
This deserves a lot of understanding on both sides, just going back to your animal welfare point.