Could I speak to it for a moment?
There were reports in the Chronicle Herald—and I have spoken to the fishing groups, who also confirmed that the reports were correct—that in 2022, on the initiative of then-chief Mike Sack, he reached out to the fishing groups in southwest Nova Scotia to see if they could come to an accommodation, and they did. Some of those details were published in the report that went up to the Minister of Fisheries then—Minister of Fisheries number five—who rejected the deal.
We had peace on the water agreed to at the initiative of first nations and signed off by first nations, and the minister rejected it. I think we need to have a hearing to find out why that happened when all of what we've been talking about for the last year or so here, whether it's the elver fishery, the illegal lobster fishery or some of the motions we've done today, are the outcomes of not signing that agreement for peace on the water between the two nations.
We propose that we have a study and invite those witnesses, the signatories to that agreement, and departmental officials.