Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Perhaps, Ms. Gibbons, I could get you to answer my previous question around the learnings from the 2019 conflicts around the lobster fishery.
Naiomi Metallic is an associate professor and chancellor's chair of aboriginal law and policy at Dalhousie University. She was here recently speaking to us in relation to the illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, which, of course, is completely interconnected with what we are talking about today.
In some of the testimony that she provided, she shared the concern that some of the discussions have been one-sided, often equating indigenous fishing with illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. She pointed out that:
This entirely overlooks that we are talking about constitutionally protected rights that require respect and implementation by governments, especially so given Canada's passing of the act on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
I'm wondering if you can provide some comments and thoughts around that. I'm happy to get further written information as well after the fact.