Mr. Speaker, as this is my first opportunity to participate in this emergency debate, I want to thank the hon. member for Courtenay—Alberni and others for bringing this to the House.
There are other contextual elements here. One is that, over the last number of years, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has given very large monopolistic licences for lobster harvesting to a large harvesting company, Clearwater Seafoods, which has multiple conservation violations, yet we are told that the concern of the fishery is that the indigenous people would hurt conservation. The evidence is to the contrary.
We are also told that the RCMP stood by and watched the violence, but there are other credible reports that the RCMP aided and abetted in violence. I would like to ask the hon. member if we should investigate both of these aspects.