Mr. Speaker, just when we thought the fisheries minister could not create any more chaos in Canada's fisheries we learn the worst is yet to come.
Advancing its policy of discrimination in the Atlantic food fishery, the government feels stabbing Newfoundland in the back is not enough. Rubbing salt in the wound might make things a little more festive. Not only is every Atlantic province permitted to fish for food except Newfoundland, Tourism Canada is now paying for advertising to attract tourists to those other provinces.
The latest insult is the permitting of an unlimited food fishery for the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon where French locals and tourists can fish their little hearts out as close as three miles from Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula.
Once again the province with the greatest cultural and economic dependency on the cod fishery is the province kicked the hardest.
A few years ago a Newfoundland organization called Cod Peace adopted the slogan "In Cod We Trust". Perhaps the House should adopt a similar motion: "For Fred We Show Disgust".