Thank you, Chair.
He subbed on a committee I chaired, and he told me he would settle it here. I'm teasing.
Monsieur Thériault, it's good to see you. You've been a visionary in the east coast fishing industry for years. A lot of times, your ideology was not always appreciated by the fishers themselves.
This committee has heard extensively the common themes that everybody wants to protect the whale and everybody is aware of the consequences if we go back to a year like 2017 or even close to that. Earlier you said it would be “devastating” to the marketplace. It has become clear that one size will not fit all as the approach. The other common theme is that where fishers and whales interact, then something must give, and not all of the gulf is where fishers and whales interact.
My question goes to a statement you made in your opening comments, or maybe it was in an answer, where you referenced that DFO must accompany fishers on the road as we develop this new technology. Could you expand on that a bit more, on how DFO must accompany fishers on the journey?