Mr. Speaker, it would be good to hear from the fisheries minister.
The Marshall decision establishes a race-based commercial fishery on the east coast. History Professor Patterson was one of the central experts cited in that case. He thinks the ruling was flawed. He said:
Mr. Binnie relies extensively on my testimony in order to support that position. But I think what he has quoted from my testimony is very, very incomplete.
Why will the government not ask the supreme court to stay the Marshall decision, and clarify it?