As an industry we're not a lobby organization per se. It's a series of businesses across the country of all sizes, from large retailers and manufacturers to small mom and pop operations. We don't get hundreds of millions of dollars from industrialists or foundations to put things forward. Historically, we have trusted the natural resource agencies—provincial, state, federal—in both countries to speak to these issues on our behalf and to manage the resource responsibly.
Certainly in the case of the senior bureaucracy at Fisheries and Oceans Canada I think the evidence is pretty unequivocal over the last 20 years that they've become about the only anti-recreational fishing agency on the continent. We don't experience that anywhere else. Now, that's not down in the ranks of the people who do the work in the field, but there's clearly an agenda going on here, and the PNCIMA process is a good example. When things are conducted behind closed doors there's probably a reason that somebody is hiding something.