It's funny that you bring up that study. The committee presented a report on the Marshall decision and its implications for the management of Atlantic fisheries back in December 1999. That report found that DFO was caught off guard and didn't have a contingency plan.
Knowing that the Mi'kmaq fishers would be on the water and threatened by commercial fishers, we're sitting here in 2020 and Mi'kmaq fishers are still being threatened and intimidated. Traps are cut and a building has been burned down. In the last 21 years, do you get the impression that DFO has developed a plan to keep the Mi'kmaq fishers' interests safe when they're on the water, or on the land actually as well, or has DFO been caught off guard again?