My time is limited, sorry.
Earlier you said that you thought you had a strong relationship with the stakeholders in the fishing industry. With all due respect, I have many fishermen in my riding, and again, with all due respect, there is nothing but deep resentment for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. They feel like they were not consulted. You're sitting here and telling me that for this large plan that has the potential to close 30% of Canada's fishing grounds, 40% in the Northern Shelf bioregion, you don't even know how many jobs are going to be lost. You don't even know what's going to happen to the coastal communities like Port Hardy, Prince Rupert and Campbell River that rely on these industries. You don't even have a plan.
What would you say to the fishermen and their families whose ability to put food on their table to feed their families and whose ability to earn a livelihood has been put at risk by some arbitrary international ideological policy that this government's blindly pursuing without even looking at the economic consequences? What would you say to them if you were sitting down at a meeting in one of these coastal towns? They're mad and they're frustrated.