Mr. Speaker, would the member for Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine, as an experienced member of this House and certainly the fisheries committee, like to comment on the fact that we have had four very senior former officials of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, a deputy minister, Bill Rowat, an ADM, Scott Parsons, a director general of International Relations Bob Applebaum and Earl Wiseman, another director general of International Affairs, between them 45 years of experience at that senior level of the department, all came out and resoundingly urged the committee and Parliament to reject the document?
Does he find that surprising? Does that tell us anything about this situation?