I just want some clarification on what was just said. Are we now...? Mr. Deschênes and the Liberals don't want to include the term “pinniped” because they want to restrict the study to only talking about the consequences on one coast of Canada but not the other.
I'm open for them to clarify, because I feel like when we passed an earlier study about an issue that was mainly affecting the west coast with regard to the fishery openings with sockeye salmon, we made it broad enough so that it wasn't irrelevant for half of the members sitting at this committee. They could relate to it for their ridings and their coast. I don't know if it's deliberate or a misunderstanding—that we're arbitrarily removing half of the coastline of Canada.