Last week, DFO in Halifax met with the licensed elver harvesters and told them that they would provide no more C and P enforcement than they provided last year on the rivers of Nova Scotia, where people were assaulted with pipes, where people brought firearms and weapons out on the river and where no licensed elver harvester has ever seen a C and P officer show up. All of them have live cameras on the river. After 18 days of this lawlessness, it was the licensees who were held back.
Can you pledge to me that you are going to work with the RCMP to have people on the rivers one month from now in March when the poaching starts, which is about a month before the official season? Will you commit to making sure that there are officers on the river—not at the airport and not patrolling buyers, but on the river—to prevent the violence and the poaching?