Thank you, Chair.
There are a couple of things.
First of all, when I was bringing forward the addition to this motion, the point around adding the derelict and abandoned vessels to the completion of the cod study, if I could be honest, I was maybe taking it a little bit too literally. It says it would begin following the completion of those studies. In my mind, we would have an additional discussion around how that works out in the timeline. I didn't see it as immediately following the completion, so whether it should be immediately following or not, I'm still not 100% sure, to be honest. The reason is due to the many questions that my colleague Madame Desbiens was just asking.
What I don't understand are some of the pieces that I'm going to be doing some further research and having conversations around, and they are around this act. When we're reviewing it, how much time is required in order for us to actually see the implementation of the recommendations that come forward? How does that work as a committee to see that this work is going to be used effectively and actually carried through?
None of us know when an election is going to happen, but we certainly know it's going to happen within a year, so do we even have enough time, if we go to the full term of what is possible, to complete this?
The other thing is that I agree with my colleague Mr. Arnold that there have been many things coming forward that are urgent in nature. How can you disagree with how important so many of the things coming forward at this committee are?
We need to be taking a moment to look at this act and whether it's effective for us to do that in this timeline that we have, because it's interconnected with many of these issues. We have an outdated Fisheries Act. We're going to see the trickle of impacts of that coming through in many of these emergency motions.
I do prefer, as a committee, that we take a moment to recognize the bigger picture here and recognize that many of the things we're talking about can be talked about when we're reviewing the act as well, because there are many components that are linked.
What I need to understand is, if we study the act, will we actually see that work being carried forward into fruition within the timeline we have remaining? Once I have that information, then I can provide my input on the timeline of how these studies will move forward.