I hope I have a few seconds to respond to that.
I hope you and your committee members have the opportunity to reflect on that word “partnership”. I can go into great detail about how that fishery was established. It was from, I can assure you, the commercial sector.
I'd like to have some time to expand on that. It was brought about by the commercial sector's historical attachment, but we have not even had the opportunity to be involved in this possible sale. Just the word of a partnership with the Mi'Kmaq in that sale would go a long way and get a lot of people thinking, right across Canada, that we're on the path of resolving this.
I can conclude my remarks here with the common ground that the early witness talked about. We have people in P.E.I. in district 33 who are fishing commercial licences as we speak, in the same seasons. After the dust of this is all settled, both sides—Mi'Kmaq and the commercial sector—have to live in the same community.
This was the overall impact back 21 years ago. That was what everybody agreed upon—that yes, we have our agreement, but we have to live in the same community and we want to live in peace and harmony.