Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans.
On March 29 in a press release the minister said conservation was the purpose of the B.C. fisheries buy back. As recently as two days ago the minister did a flip-flop and admitted his plan has no teeth and will not do anything to conserve salmon.
We would think that with that admission he would reconsider the plan before turning the lives of fishermen in British Columbia upside down. Will the minister admit conservation was just a cynical excuse to sell his plan?