Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am very pleased to welcome our knowledgeable witnesses this afternoon. I'm particularly delighted to welcome friends from Quebec, and to pass on greetings from the leader of the Bloc Québecois.
Ms. St.-Pierre, I'm pleased to be meeting you for the first time, although I have previously heard you and your colleagues speak. As a former restaurant chef myself, I once have had the unfortunate experience of opening a box of cod fillets, which I had been told came from Canada, from Quebec in fact, only to experience disappointment when I realized it was cod from Russia.
I therefore fully understand your enthusiasm for dining on food from the St. Lawrence. How are you going to deal with the shortage of seal products, when you've been telling us that the demand appears to be there?