The behaviour in Nova Scotia is unfortunate. When a first nation is exercising its legitimate right to a treaty fishery, to be treated that way....
It's heartening to know that not everyone feels that way. According to the latest CTV Nanos poll, 74% of Canadians feel that Mi'kmaq treaty rights should be respected and honoured.
That's how we have to move forward. We have to educate. We have to share. We need the opportunity to sit down with the minister. If we need to educate her, we'll do that. We've been trying to do it relentlessly but have been butting up against....
We did the same thing. We tried again this year to access snow crab. DFO has a science quota of crab of 3,500 tonnes, which they use to generate money for their science program. Why the hell can you not—? And that was originally. There was another set-aside too, for MFU when their lobster fishers were having a hard time. There was a quota that was used to help those fishers when lobsters were in tough times.
Listen, first nations have been in tough times for a couple of hundred years. How about spreading some of that access around?