Thank you very much.
Thank you, gentlemen, for being here.
Over my time in Ottawa since 2004 I've heard a number of times from Manitoba MPs who have heard from commercial fishermen in or near their ridings their dissatisfaction with the freshwater marketing board.
I want to try to tie in my question, if applicable, with your opinion on what the wheat board was. At the time the criticism of a lot of Manitoba and other western farmers was that there was too much bureaucracy, if I can use that word, within the wheat board, and that at the end of the day for the people producing the wheat or barley or whatever the product was, their share of that product was diminishing constantly.
Could the same thing be said about the freshwater marketing board in that ultimately there has to be a reason why Manitoba fishermen want to pull out? In your opinion, is that the reason, that they don't feel they're getting as big a bang for their buck?