Mr. Speaker, I suppose the dean of the law school would have told us 10 or 15 years ago there was no right to intervene in a sovereign state for humanitarian reasons. That has now changed, and it has changed because international law has changed and has developed based on new concepts and ideas of protection of other countries.
The law of the sea in this particular case does not prevent a custodial state from ensuring that an international resource will be protected. The very problem is that the regime that was there was ineffective; it was not working to protect the stocks and someone had to do something about it. That is where custodial management comes from.
No, it did not exist 10 years ago, but it is something that has to be developed and put into place.