Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My first question is for Mr. Brillant.
Mr. Brillant, it seems like we have a one-size-fits-all policy for Atlantic Canada. I'm just looking at a map here now on Whale Insight, and I'm looking at the sightings in the Newfoundland and Labrador side of it. Why I'm going to a one-size-fits-all question here is that there haven't been very many sightings.
I look at the dates, and every single date of a whale sighting—and I only have five here since 2016 around the island portion—is outside the crab and lobster seasons. There is a sighting there on June 17, I believe it was, in 3Ps, but that's outside of their lobster season even. That's the end of their lobster season.
The ones on the Avalon Peninsula—two in 3L and the two in 3K, and none in Labrador whatsoever—were all in September or late November, well outside the lobster and snow crab seasons.
Why would these harvesters be subject to any of the requirements of right whale protection when there is zero chance of their being there? You're well inside your 90% chance or your 90% protection, because there is zero risk. What do you have to say on that?