Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Cumberland-Colchester for her excellent question. I assure her the government shares the emotions she feels with respect to the importance of putting an end to foreign overfishing of endangered cod stocks. I am sure all members of the House share the member's concern about this important issue.
I tell the member that on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week representatives of all the Atlantic provincial governments, all the fishermen's organizations, associations and unions, and all the sectoral industry groups under the leadership of the national government will be in Brussels to make the case before a special committee of the NAFO scientific council, asking for a review of NAFO's decision to fish endangered 3NO cod.
We are going to point out that we have stopped fishing here. We have stopped even the food fishery here. Canada can do no more for conservation and the EC can do no less than to stop the fishery of 3NO cod.