Over my career, I've seen Canada used as a test case by U.S. environmental and animal rights' organizations many times. It started with the seal hunt on the east coast by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, out of Yarmouth, Massachusetts. We saw that expand to the animal cruelty legislation that was just defeated in second reading in the House of Commons here last fall. It was the same proponents.
We've seen it in bear hunt campaigns where Ontario was the test case, and then it was exported back to Montana, Maine, Alaska, New Jersey, Maryland. We've seen it in issues around lead: lead ammunition, lead sinkers. as though the sky is falling due to thousands of loons dying from that. There's no scientific evidence to support that. That was attempted in Canada and then exported back to the U.S. states and so on.
We've seen example after example. If you look at this over a timeline, dominoes connect and there's a common direction here. I think the end game, with regard to the MPA scenario, and I would say the agenda-based MPA scenario as opposed to science-based, is to get all the recreational and commercial boats off the water.