Mr. Speaker, is the hon. member suggesting for a moment that we do not listen to the Supreme Court of Canada, that we are somehow above the law?
There was an opportunity all along. We were following this debate and the issue very closely. The government failed to show leadership. For the hon. member to raise questions and innuendo in the House on issues which he is obviously not cognizant of and for which he does not have the facts, including the aboriginal lobster fishery that existed previously, is a serious mistake.
If we have leadership from the government we have an opportunity to bring an end to the problem in this fishery right now. We can put a moratorium in place. However it was the Reform Party that did not want a moratorium. It insisted that we could have a stay of proceedings. Look where the stay of proceedings is right now. We are 72 hours from the end of this. The stay of proceedings will not happen. We went in the wrong direction with it. We should have had a moratorium in the beginning. That is the problem.