Yes, that's what I mean about concepts like median income or whatever. You know, the court wasn't saying that a person has the right to have a middle class income or whatever. What the court was trying to do was to find a way to put some parameters around where this fishery would fall. To put it in blunt terms, if a food fishery means you use 10 traps, and if a commercial fishery means you use 500 traps, well, somewhere between 10 traps and 500 traps is going to be where a moderate livelihood fishery falls, and there are a lot of questions that you need to figure out within that. What is the health of the resource? How many Mi'kmaq want to get involved? How many things are we talking about?
But that's what regulators do. That's what resource managers do. They sit down and they look at the total resource and how they are going to apportion it in a way that meets all of those needs. So when the Supreme Court said moderate livelihood, that's what they were trying to get at. They were trying to get at the sense that if somebody does that, they can't be doing it to accumulate wealth, and they identified what necessities are. They said there's housing, and food, and the necessities of life that all of us have, and if you're doing that, then that's good.
Sorry about that. Thanks.