Mr. Chair, I believe what is written in the act is that it be reviewed. It does not have to be this committee—it could be a Senate committee—that does the review of the Fisheries Act. Earlier, I believe it was the clerk or the analyst who stated that the review of the act is not immediate, so we have time to provide witnesses.
What we see here, which I began to experience only as time progressed during my nine years now on this committee, is that we have more and more urgent, emergency or crisis situations happening, and items come up that we need to study immediately on behalf of the fish harvesters and for the conservation of fish stocks. It's becoming a more recurrent theme that there's an urgent issue that hasn't been dealt with. After nine years on this committee I haven't tallied up how many reports we did, and the government responses to and action on those reports were not respectful of the knowledge around this committee table nor of the witnesses and harvesters who came in and testified.
What we're seeing here is an urgent issue. It's a growing issue that Mr. Perkins raised. The Fisheries Act will continue, but there are, I believe, more pressing issues affecting our fish harvesters right now.