I agree with Carl. What's really prohibitive right now for young people is access to licences and the finances.
Our province introduced an initiative this year that was a loan program. It seems to be working in some instances. It definitely needs some improvements, but it is a good first step.
What we are seeing is that lack of enforcement by DFO when it comes to controlling agreements and companies buying up licences.
In my previous life as a staff rep in 3Ps, I couldn't count the number of people, young harvesters, who would call me and say, “Look, I had this licence lined up; I had financing lined up through the bank, and this company just outbid me by $50,000.”
It's so disheartening for a young harvester to try to get into the industry. That just keeps happening, because, at the end of the day, somebody in their twenties or early thirties trying to get their footing in this industry cannot compete with a corporation worth millions of dollars.