Mr. Allen, you were saying that permits should be issued primarily to people who are fishing, with boots on their feet, not to big corporations that have never seen water rise above their overshoes, as my father used to say. That way, we could build young people's confidence as well.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada doesn't listen very closely to people in the field, they work in silos, they don't have an open and transparent approach to managing the ecosystem, and they lack predictability. These are things that should be corrected to attract the next generation of fishers.
Is that a fair statement?