I think access to Global Affairs Canada is a critical step in all this. We need trade minds to look at the present constructs that exist. The Inuit and indigenous exemptions that exist have failed miserably. We should also have Environment Canada involved. We have Sable Island classified as a national park, and we have grey seals overrunning it.
We put together this strategy and submitted it to the federal government repeatedly over the last decade. I'll be happy to follow up with this committee following here. We've requested that we formulate a strategy, because we've been doing the same thing for 40 years. We've been talking about the seal hunt being sustainable. We've been talking about it being important to culture and tradition, and we've said that the products and the end uses are pragmatic. We have not gone so far as to position this as an ecosystem necessity. I believe that's where we presently are, Mr. Kelloway.
I really embrace an opportunity to sit down with some trade minds and let them know what happens in our business every day, where we see opportunity and why we can't access that opportunity. Let me make it very clear. It's not that there aren't enough people in this world who want seal products. It's our access to them that's the problem. We've had requests just recently for omega-3 seal oil for America. We get requests constantly from the EU, and we can't service them, because people don't understand the reality of the size of the problem we're dealing with.