Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here, Minister. I am glad to see you and your colleagues.
I think climate change is a catch-all excuse. We heard about the owner-operator model earlier. I can tell you that it is not just shrimp that are becoming extinct; owner-operators are too.
The fisheries are in crisis. In the Bloc Québécois, we obviously speak for Quebec fishers. The plants are closing down, there is no openness to the idea of licence buy-backs, the quotas are insufficient, and the proportion allocated to offshore trawlers is of great concern since that is what contributed to the decline in the resources 30 years ago.
Do you and your colleague, the Minister of Immigration, think that creating a crisis unit is an option to be considered in order to quickly remedy the foreign workers situation and apply measures to prevent bankruptcies? There are boats for sale but no one will buy them if there is no fishery.