Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to the comments of the member for Skeena and the fact that he believes there are enough constitutional lawyers, enough legal opinions and enough bureaucrats in Ottawa to help find some sort of solution to this problem.
Would the member not agree with me that the real solution to this issue probably lies in the fishermen themselves and in the coastal communities of Atlantic Canada? In the last 26 days that this decision has been rendered, we have heard time and time again that the aboriginal people and non-aboriginal people have been getting together to come up with short term and then long term solutions for the long term viability and conservation minded aspects of the fishery. The problem of course is that the government is not giving any human or financial resources to aid those people in their consultations.
Would the member not agree that a better solution to this would be from the ground up instead of the top down?