Yes. With the new Fisheries Act, the minister now has responsibility for socio-economic outcomes, or at least a power to consider those.
When you look at the west coast fishery, I describe it as a broken model from a socio-economic benefits perspective. We have continuing employment decline, and weak and insecure incomes in the industry. We have poor career prospects and a serious problem with intergenerational succession and labour supply in the future. We have coastal communities and first nations that are losing population and economic viability.
I describe the fishery as a growth sector everywhere, globally. The fact that it's failing in British Columbia is a policy problem, not a problem inherent in the fishery or the fisheries economy. I think we should see the same kind of contribution to developing middle-class incomes in fishing communities that we are now seeing in the Atlantic region in a proper policy model.