Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here. We are very grateful.
I'd like to return to the testimony we heard two weeks ago from Mr. Collin and Mr. Lelièvre. The latter is a fisher who was directly affected by this unexpected situation. He was forced to do nothing when his boat was ready to head offshore. For these fishers, this is of course a situation that can't last. They have to reorient their careers or review their living as fishers. And, of course, they want financial compensation.
What will happen if we are unable to restore the resource by 2023 or 2024 and these people can no longer fish? Is there a way of keeping them going?
As Félix Leclerc so often said, it's better to teach people to fish than to give them money. It's an important principle.
Do you have a solution for these people?
The testimony we heard two weeks ago was really very distressing.