That's a great question. I do have a running spreadsheet, and in the world of salmon conservation we certainly talk about SRIF and some missed opportunities in terms of funding.
How do we get there? We have Mr. Donnelly on the line, and I'm hoping that he can help straighten that process out a little bit. However, we can talk, and we've been talking about money.
My background is in business. Again, this is return on investment. We need to have it in our minds that these things we're going to fund are going to make more fish. That's the overarching priority, so when I hear “salmon restoration and innovation fund” and I see that $600,000 is going to Canadian groundfish research, I question who is running this ship and whether it is really about salmon.
There are definitely some examples that make it very clear that the agency, DFO, had interests it wanted funded through this fund that were non-salmon-related. I would lean on my colleagues here, and certainly on Mr. Donnelly, to help straighten that out to make sure there is a line of sight and so that when the technical review happens on salmon restoration and innovation fund applications, the peer review or the technical review process is not overturned at a later date by someone else's decisions.