Thank you for clarifying, Ms. Gibbons.
With respect, can you...? The wording in the very first sentence was, “I am writing to inform you of my intention not to renew any elver licences”. If you were an elver licence-holder, how would you interpret that very first sentence? I know that if I were an elver licence-holder, I don't know that I'd even read the rest of it. I would just immediately assume, “Well, I guess the season's closed. They've made the decision.”
Can you perhaps speak to the decision by the minister to have this as the very first sentence in the letter to the licence-holders, and perhaps reflect on how this may be shutting down the conversation, or the consultation as you're referring to it, before it's even begun?