Co-management only works if all parties are at the table. If some parties are excluded, there definitely can be no progress. Even if they are there on behalf of Canada, commercial fishers must be there nonetheless. There will be no solution without them. Obviously, the Mi'Kmaq will also have to be there.
Then, as is the case for all committees, including parliamentary committees, a synergy develops after a certain period of time. Or at least that is the hope.
As I demonstrated in my study, co-management often does not work because of external issues. For example, in Nunavut there was one case where the co-management committee gave Nunavut fishers a turbo quota, but the federal government intervened and subsequently gave this quota to Newfoundland and Labrador for political reasons. In such cases, co-management does not work. Committees must arrive at a consensus themselves and then—