Mr. Speaker, the appropriate time was several weeks ago.
Today, however, fisheries organizations throughout Atlantic Canada and Quebec have issued a joint call to the federal and provincial fisheries ministers to convene an emergency meeting to deal with the economic crisis in the fishery. Members of the FFAW, the MFU in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the P.E.I. Fishermen's Association, Regroupement des pêcheurs professionnels du sud de la Gaspésie in Quebec are urgently calling on the federal government to intervene.
Will the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, along with her seatmate, the minister of unemployment , commit to meet with these organizations in the next three days, or is she prepared to handle this by simply whistling past the graveyard?