Mr. Speaker, the Government of Canada encouraged fishers of Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec to voluntarily retire from the fishery in return for a retirement benefit. Hundreds of fishers took the offer. Unfortunately, the government taxed that benefit 100% instead of the required 25%.
The fishers have been trying to get the government to return the thousands of dollars taken from them unfairly but the government has refused.
Will the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans intercede on behalf of those fishers and get the government to return to them the money they are owed?