Thank you very much for those questions.
If the Conservative Party and the Bloc Québécois don't want to vote for the budget allocated to small craft harbours, they might not be so important to them. For us, however, they're very important, because there's an entire economy linked to them.
In addition, there's important scientific work to be done on the warming of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. We've noted a great deal of concern within the fishing industry. This winter, there was no ice in the gulf and the fishery started much earlier. There's also a drop in oxygen in the gulf waters, and that's hurting forage species such as capelin, smelt, herring and mackerel, which feed other species.
That's why I think it's important to really depoliticize the fishery. We all need to work together to protect the fisheries of the future. That's also why it's important to have marine parks and marine protected areas. They are our nurseries. They will allow the species to reproduce, and that's how we'll be able to sustain the fisheries. Who would think of going fishing in their nursery? My goal is not to kill fisheries. No one wakes up in the morning wondering what they can do to make life unbearable for our fishers. That would make life unbearable for us, the people who live in the fishery. So everybody has to work together to make sure that we have a sustainable fishery.