That's going to be hard in a couple of minutes, but I'll try.
Basically, the board process, the idea of working together at a community level between first nations and the community fishermen and non-indigenous communities, is the heart of the idea of developing that board, in order to make sure that there's a proper management structure that would provide socio-economic benefits to the community.
On the money that Kathy has mentioned, we used the aquatic management board to put a very comprehensive plan in place. We met five times with Minister Shea at the time. Then we found out through a court case by the area G troll fishermen—when the money wasn't given to who it should have been given to—that the department had already made a decision before it even started the consultative process. It had already decided to give the money to other interests and to not use it to mitigate the damage on the west coast.
We're asking right now for the aquatic management board to hold that money in trust for the commercial fishermen and the communities out here on the west coast. We've asked the cabinet to consider that. We've said that this is critical in order to support these communities that are in a position, as Kathy said, of disaster.
On that issue of disaster relief, that's what I did back in 1999. I spent three months trying to get disaster relief funding for the collapse of the Fraser sockeye in 1999. They just refused to do it, which led to a 59-day hunger strike, which then led to a consultative review. I've been down this road before, and it's very frustrating to see it happening again and again here.
We have resources and we have the opportunity. It's just being completely denied by the existing power structure within the Pacific region.