Madam Speaker, it is very difficult to get the opportunity to ask a question tonight and I will keep it to one minute.
With regard to the minister's statement there is one looming question that needs to be asked. We all know that there is no plan by the department of Indian affairs and there is no plan by the minister of fisheries to integrate natives into the fishery, but I want to know the minister's reasoning behind his statement when he said that natives were kept out of this fishery in the past.
In the 1950s and 1960s a lobster licence in southwest Nova Scotia could be bought for $1. I believe prior to that a licence was 25 cents.
What kept any first nations from the lobster fishery at that time?