Mr. Speaker, I do know a few things about fish. I will not make any admission that the cost of administration within DFO is totally out of control.
I know the member will want to carefully do his homework with respect to making representations on behalf of the Fisheries Council of Canada. What he should know is that the Fisheries Council of Canada said that we should have a fishery more like New Zealand. In New Zealand 73 per cent of all the quota available in the whole country is held by only eight companies.
If the Reform Party is seriously suggesting that some 64,000 fishermen ought to disappear so that eight corporations could hold 75 per cent of the quota, then the member should say so.