I want to thank our guests for being here.
Mr. Brazil, as our chair said, you spoke very eloquently and Mr. Sullivan as well.
As you could tell from the previous session with the officials who were here, we were absolutely flabbergasted at some of the testimony that we've been hearing. We know that this affects families and the livelihoods of those in the communities. Our honourable colleague brought this motion to the table for us.
Much of what we've been hearing in this testimony and this study, we've heard in other studies as well. I'll bring you back to this. Mr. Cleary, forgive me if I'm wrong, but you were around when we were doing the northern cod and Atlantic salmon studies. That was a year ago, I believe. There were some things that I found very frustrating and I don't understand. I'm going to ask all four of you to perhaps chime in. Why is the union, and from our understanding, WWF as well, sitting around the table developing or deciding policy and quota in these areas?
Go ahead, Mr. Cleary, or anybody else who wants to chime in.