Madam Speaker, protecting fishery resources is very important. Fishers would be the first to agree.
However, the Minister of Fisheries never thinks of fishers. She has no compensation plan, and no plan to redirect them toward other fisheries. Her only plan, until this week, was to tell fishers to apply for EI. However, they are ineligible because the minister has prohibited them from working. The minister must not improvise like that when it comes to people's livelihoods.
Will the minister come to her senses and announce compensation for fishers before the holidays?