Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Macdonald, we're interested, again, to hear of some of the DFO excesses that have been caused by that previous legislation. It confirms the wisdom of what we've done in passing our economic action plan this spring, I think.
Some of my other colleagues may talk about that, but I'd like to talk to you about something that's consistently come up through our study over the last year—as you're coming from three different geographic areas—and that is the issue of human resources. I assume, as many other witnesses have told us, that is an issue for you. I'm just wondering what you're doing in your part of Canada in order to deal with that issue. You're in northern B.C., you're spread out across some of the provinces, and you're in the north, but what are your members doing to try to deal with that issue?
It may actually lead into this, but I'd like to talk about education and training and how you are participating as part of that. We've had various suggestions of what might work in remote communities and other places, in aboriginal communities, trying to get them engaged. So I'm just interested in your thoughts on that.
Mr. Amos, if you want to participate in this as well, I'd be glad to hear your thoughts on the development of human resources and then how we deal with education and training.
Go ahead.