Mr. Speaker, am I ever glad the member brought up consultation, or the lack thereof.
I happen to sit on the committee, so I know what I am talking about. The Liberal members on the committee were thoroughly embarrassed. In day after day of testimony on this, their constituents, their fishermen, kept coming back. Their biggest complaint was that there was almost no consultation, if any. It was basically “This is what we're doing.”
That is not consultation. That is telling people. I thank the member for opening that door for my comment.