Mr. Speaker, last summer the Supreme Court acknowledged that since the time of the Magna Carta there has existed a public right to fish. To date the commer-
cial sales portion of the aboriginal fishing strategy has operated outside the law.
This Bill C-62 will give the minister the right to discard 800 years of common law and allow for these private fisheries and do it without proper debate.
I would like the parliamentary secretary to address that issue, please.