Okay, I'll start.
I think as a rule that should be strictly adhered to, any access, certainly, to fishing privileges in Canada must be Canadian owned. The consideration is whether it should be fully Canadian owned. Right now basically a foreign company with a Canadian subsidiary can own these corporate licences. That structure could be revisited. We know we've had major companies that have outwardly been 49% foreign owned. Is that an acceptable threshold? Really you wonder when you get complex structures how much of the money may be staying in Canada. We know that a lot of our fishing enterprises have significant foreign investment. I think that's something worth reconsidering as well.
With regard to maintaining our strong fishing communities, we've seen generally significant growth in the value of our enterprises on the east coast. They are sizable businesses and they are really capable of harvesting fish. New opportunities exist. We're seeing a changing ecosystem. The species we're fishing and concentrating on now are not the same ones as 30 or 40 years ago. I expect one thing about that—that it's always going to change. The marine ecosystem is going to be conducive to some other species coming along. Giving that fish to inshore owner-operators, to people who live along that area of coastline, is a very good economic policy for Canada to adopt. That is one way to ensure that the value of our species stays here.
When we see them going to offshore companies, generally following and really understanding how that money stays in our economy and even in Canada gets an awful lot blurrier.
I'll leave it there.