Well, I would say to Mr. Porter's point earlier in the committee meeting that he's partially right in saying the act in and of itself around owner-operator is not so bad as much as the application of it is.
However, from a federation point of view, and even from the point of view of the Maritime Fishermen's Union in New Brunswick, we'd like to see those same provisions added to the west coast, because, as it exists today, it's only for the Atlantic coast and Quebec. I don't understand how you can have a law and a regulation that is applied to only one coast of a country. Why doesn't it apply to the other?
If you look at what has happened to the broader fisheries economy in B.C. as a result of harvesters that are paying 75¢ on the landed value of fish to the licence-holder, who might be living in a condo in Vancouver, it has destroyed the fisheries economy abroad. You yourselves would know that in your backyard, the fish itself is only a very small part of the fisheries economy, right? There's the processing, the boatbuilding, the ship rigging, the equipment—all that other stuff that fish creates—so that when I have the entire benefit of my enterprise, I can reinvest in my community.
We'd like to see that brought in for the west coast, and then there's the actual enforcement. As Dwan said, if you have a speed limit, it's great, but if nobody's there to enforce it, it's not worth the paper it's written on.