Mr. Speaker, the hon. member has shown why Conservatives so consistently were unable to manage the fishery. They do not understand that without fish you cannot have fishermen. This critical fact is completely ignored by the member. He does not realize that to have an effective fishery, to have fishermen with decent incomes, and to enable their families to take part in our society like others who have decent incomes, we need to have an adequate supply of fish. He does not understand that, but he comes to this House to try to tell us that somehow or another we should ignore conservation and simply allow allocation for fishermen.
In the House of Commons on February 19th, 1998. See this statement in context.