I'll go back to my example of where they're using banked licences that were bought back through a government buyback in 2009 and, I think, in 2013. I may be wrong about 2013. When that came out, we were told that it was being done under the guise of conservation for the stocks to remain healthy and to be harvested. Then, lo and behold, no new access was going to be granted, so they turned around and used these banked licences that were bought out of this buyback program, and not only that, but also latent traps from a partnership licence. In my LFA, if you stack two licences together, you're allowed to fish 413 traps instead of 550. Therefore, for those traps that are not being used, the department decided to take those traps that are unused and put them in use for the moderate livelihood agreements.
For me, if I were someone with a stacked licence who made that investment to purchase that second licence, I'd be pretty upset if the government were to turn around and use some of my investment to help someone else make a living. To be honest, with the way the loan board is set up and the banks are set up, first nations can go through the same process as I can. They can go to the bank, and they can finance a licence and purchase a commercial licence to become an actual harvester.
