--at least admit it and tell them that is what it wants.
If that is the problem, let us deal with it head on but do not go around behind the scenes doing these little things which turn into big things and still they do not know where they are going.
There has been a lot said here tonight. I know there will be a lot more said, but at the same time we have to remember one thing. Families are going to be hurt. This is the personal side. Businesses are going to be hurt. Communities are going to be hurt. I do not have the answers to help them out. I do not think a $25 million package is going to help them out as it should. It will help out in the short term but not in the long term.
I firmly believe if the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans does not revisit the decision, the minister should resign his post because he has not done justice to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. The six MPs, excluding the minister for ACOA because he is in cabinet, but he should follow the six Newfoundlanders and Labradorians and stand firm and say this is not good enough for our people. We want this looked at again to come up with a different plan.
What should be implemented is the all party committee plan. We believe that is the plan that is going to work. We spent time preparing it. It is time the federal government started to listen to the people who know what the people feel they deserve. We know the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. If it does not work out, then it will be our fault. We will have failed. But right now the minister has failed.
I am thankful for the opportunity to speak. I know that I am the last speaker in the debate. I tell clergy people all the time to say a prayer for Canada, but say a prayer for the fishermen and the minister. He is going to need every prayer we can give him because this is not over yet.