Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's been a while since I've gone first in committee, so it's quite a privilege.
Thank you, witnesses.
I understand some of the issues and comments made by some of the witnesses today. Obviously, we don't control what the witnesses say in this study on IUU, and people have taken focuses in various directions.
I know, Mr. Roman, you've appeared before the committee before, back in I think the 2020 lobster dispute. I think you said something then about some of the challenges in the way governments of all sorts have managed the fishery and the moderate livelihood issue, which, if I heard correctly, Professor Metallic.... They are similar in that what we have are a series of Supreme Court decisions and a series of policy decisions over 20-plus years from governments, but a lot of those policy decisions aren't based on law in the sense that, as Professor Metallic said, they're not reflected in any of the actual changes to the statute or the regulations.
I wonder, Mr. Roman and Professor Metallic—perhaps Mr. Roman first—if you could comment on that issue and why that's such a gap and a problem.
Professor Metallic, have there ever been any discussions about actually finding a way to put that into your legislation in all of the work you've done with DFO?
Mr. Roman, go ahead first.