I can go if you want.
Basically, there is no real consultation. I think that's across all sectors that have been mentioned.
We actually had an emergency meeting with the first nations in our region yesterday. Dan was involved and we discussed the fact that the aquatic management board is no longer functional because of pulling [Technical difficulty—Editor]. The stakeholders in the region still believe in the guiding principles and that maybe we'll just pick them and run with them ourselves.
The consultation process has been a sham. Basically, you sit through a process where I've seen managers sit and read a newspaper because they know how useless it all is. It doesn't matter what recommendations go forward. Once it gets into senior management's hands it's already a predetermined fact.
On this year's COVID plan that we put forward in April, we worked with first nations, local communities and buyers, and we said, given the situation that we're facing with world markets and getting people in and out of these communities, how can we do it? This was COVID-related. We got nothing—absolutely nothing.
Even in the last few weeks I've had to phone the minister's office, MPs and MLAs, everyone, just to get a discussion with our local managers because our guys are out there using the wrong lures and they won't let them change.
You have to recognize some of these things. The fishing industry here has lost a lot of its participation already. The fleet—