Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My comments are along the same lines as Mr. Hardie's. We want to believe that regulations will change things, but we all have enough experience to know that there's nothing easier to get around than a regulation.
Personally, I'm afraid that the most honest people, those who don't flout the regulations and have developed fishing by the sweat of their brow, are the ones who are penalized. As I said earlier, this is also the case in other types of fishery. They're always the ones who are penalized: their fishery is closed down and their licences taken away, even though these people often behave in an exemplary way. I find this frightening, because in the end there will be frustration, anger and intimidation. We're going to end up in an irreversible impasse.
In this context, and in a state governed by the rule of law like ours, what makes you think we can change things in the more or less short term?