Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First of all, thank you to my colleague MP Weiler for his amendment.
I want to respond to some of the concerns that were brought forward by my colleague MP Arnold.
First of all, two things can be true at the same time. I absolutely agree that a traceability program is not in place to effectively label seafood in order for us to have a good understanding of what it is. I agree with that statement 100%.
Also, we have a House of Commons parliamentary restaurant that knows full well that they are serving open-pen farmed fish from British Columbia. It's advertised as such. It is sold as such. We could go on about how legitimate that is. I'm pretty sure that you have a pretty direct line to know that what you're purchasing is farmed.
The other thing to put my colleague's mind at rest is that the amendment that's been made specifies now that we are talking about B.C. farmed fish only, so the argument around the east coast no longer applies to this motion.
I hope that puts my colleague's mind at ease when he votes.