Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate it because we have cod all around Nova Scotia, and it was impacting the lobster fishery last December as well, because they are back in larger numbers. However, it is the minister's decision that this study is about. It's about the specific move from 13,000 metric tons to 18,000 metric tons in 2J3KL—very specific cod-fishing areas—and the agreement with NAFO that stems from those areas. It's not about the decision and the prompting of the study. Of course, I'm sure government members know that everything that has been discussed in public with the FFAW and all of the processor and other industry groups has been about their concerns around the decision of the minister and her announcement on 2J3KL. It's not about the entire cod fishery all over Atlantic Canada.
I believe that's why...and I would support a broader study beyond this. It would have to be more than four meetings if we were to go to a broader cod study in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Nova Scotia and other parts. I would support that, but we would have to add more meetings to do that. The four meetings specifically, as far as I'm concerned—and the motivation for them—are about that specific decision by the minister. That's why his preamble talked about what the minister did in her announcement.