I can reconcile it by what I say: that the wording is very clear. It's adjacency. If you live by the decision of the Supreme Court in 1999, it talks about it very clearly. It is also in a clarification of the standing committee.
Twenty-one years ago, the same committee that you're sitting on now gave clarification to Marshall 2. It went through the standing committee, the same committee that you're on, sir, 21 years ago. It did a clarification, and it talked about the importance of adjacency.
It can't get any clearer than that. These were elected officials who dealt with that word, and here we are 21 years in the future having the same discussion.
What I'm suggesting to you is that hopefully your standing committee can make a recommendation to the Minister of Fisheries to create this mechanism, and we'd have an opportunity to be heard and have a good discussion by level-headed people that could get this thing solved almost within hours.
I was hoping I'd get a question from you about the offshore. That would be an interesting scenario. I just want to plant this seed in your head, and I hope you'll have a chance to understand it.
If we were to remove the partnership whereby the Mi'kmaq are going to buy Clearwater and were to remove the B.C. firm with the Atlantic Canadian inshore fishermen—just visualize that—and partner with the Mi'kmaq, we would have a stepping stone to get this thing resolved within hours.
I just want to leave you with that question, and I hope you have a chance to reflect on that possible scenario, because this can be easily done. Put that sale on hold and just visualize a partnership. The word in itself will have a lot of solving power to get this issue resolved. I hope you have time to reflect on that.