Mr. Speaker, last month, more than 1,000 fish plant workers on the Acadian peninsula were forced not to report for work. The reason was that the crab fishers were not prepared to negotiate in good faith in connection with the solidarity fund to compensate for the black hole created by this government's employment insurance reform.
My question is for the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. Would he give some thought to giving the fish plant workers quotas on the amount of crab taken by the coastal fishers, in order to stabilize the solidarity fund and share the resource within the community?