Thank you, Minister. I will move on to my next question.
I will say I'm concerned that we've been allowing industry to control what has been happening in our waters and to damage our waters for far too long. It's time for us to start protecting wild salmon, and our communities as well.
I want to move to the west coast commercial fishers. Unfortunately, we're seeing on the west coast licences being treated like a private stock market. We've seen quite a different approach being taken on the east coast, however.
There were recommendations that were brought forward, right from this committee, to reform the west coast fishery. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, none have been implemented. One of those recommendations was around a transparent beneficial owner registry, so that Canadians can see which corporations own licences in the west coast fishery, instead of having all these numbered companies that can't be attached to whomever it is.
Why is this government okay with corporations controlling so much of the vital fishery? Shouldn't Canadians at least know who owns them?