Again, I'll give you a few more examples, but I want to reiterate that I really don't have many solutions to the issues that are currently being raised today and have been in the last few weeks by this committee. I think this is a first step, and there needs to be a thorough study done by a group of experts to come back with some more details and potential solutions.
It seems to me, from my perspective in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, that in some areas where the value of the licences and fishing enterprises have been increasing phenomenally in the last 10 years, such as the inshore lobster fishery in areas of New Brunswick, all of a sudden over the last five years there's been a lot more interest from “outside of province” interests and international interests. They buy into the local corporate processing sector and agglomerate these plants, which in some cases can be bought for a few million dollars.
It's still early in the game in some areas where maybe it's not too late to try to turn back the scene, but in some areas across Nova Scotia and on the west coast, particularly in B.C., there are flagrant examples of corporate international investments, and they need solutions.