Mr. Speaker, I enjoyed the hon. member's remarks. In fact, as chair of the standing committee at the time the hearings were held, I can vouch for what the hon. member says.
The fact is that fishermen and Newfoundlanders and Labradorians in general certainly feel that allowing the foreign fleets on the nose and tail of the Grand Banks and the Flemish Cap is a case in which the nation as a whole, Canada as a whole, is letting them down and allowing the fisheries resource to be abused.
My question to the hon. member is about this. The arguments that we as a committee got back from the Government of Canada for it not adopting the report as we wished were along the lines that it should be left up to NAFO or that it legally cannot be done in the international arena to go with custodial management. I wonder what the hon. member's views on that point might be. What would he say to refute that argument?