Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I also want to welcome you, Minister. You know that we are very pleased, in Quebec, to know that we have a francophone minister in the department. In Quebec, fisheries are certainly an economic tool, but they are also an element of our culture. I am very happy to see you in this department.
I am also happy that my colleague Mr. Cormier was able to raise the problems associated with mackerel, herring and shrimp, which are in danger.
We are often told that we do not have the means to determine the status of the resources. We are repeatedly told that the existing measures are not adequate and are not up to date.
Do you hope to find budgets so that you are able do more to measure the extent of the problems associated with the resource in the St. Lawrence and the Gulf of St. Lawrence?