I don't think there's any question that DFO is working very hard. We work very closely with DFO scientists in most of the work we do. The problem is a lack of funding. They don't have the funding to do the work which needs to get done, plain and simple. There needs to be more money put into it.
I have emails here, and I won't say from whom, but from a number of different DFO scientists, saying they basically had to scrape and scrimp to do the science that has already been done. There hasn't been federal funding for that. They had to find outside funding sources. There's a real problem with their ability to get the work done, plain and simple.
It's not for lack of trying and not because they're covering it up. These are good, hard-working scientists who want to provide good science, but they just don't have the funding to do it.