Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question is for Ms. Levesque.
After my bill to manage pinnipeds and balance ecosystems was tabled in 2022, this Liberal government was all over developing markets and expanding harvests.
A healthy harvest of harp seals would be north of 300,000, for sure. In 2023, it was 40,000; in 2024, it was 32,000; and this year it was somewhere around 25,000. In the last three years, after the commitment was made to bring down seal numbers by having a healthy harvest, it's been failure upon failure, and we just heard the minister say she believes in having a healthy seal harvest.
Do you know why the Prime Minister removed the trade of seal products from the agenda in June when the meeting was had with Europeans for a trade summit?