Thank you, Mr. Arnold.
This committee has been studying the topic of owner-operator and fleet separation for many years. Reports in 2019 and 2023 were very clear about recommendations for changes that needed to be made. We are still hoping to see those changes. There's very little progress and actual work being done.
There was yet another study. Lindsay Gardner is working very hard, but she is asking questions about whether we should undertake reforms in the Pacific region. She's holding round tables and asking the same questions we've been asking and have been presenting to this committee for six years. Instead, what she should be asking is, how should we modernize west coast fisheries policy?
This time and these taxpayer dollars could be so much better put to use if there was simply a ministerial order that said the decision has been made and we are moving to owner-operator in the Pacific region. We can start the conversation about how.
In the community, we've been asked to present how that could look for different fisheries, but that's like asking us to do homework when it hasn't been decided that it's going to happen. There would be much more creative energy put toward it if that decision was made.
As it relates to the act, section 2.5 talks about the—