Mr. Speaker, whether we talk about the farmers struggling with the canola trade, the steel companies facing tariffs or the auto workers losing 3,000 jobs to the U.S.A., it seems as though all the Liberals are doing is helping Trump build a wall on trade barriers. They never mentioned the trade barriers on our sealing industry in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The seal overpopulation in Atlantic Canada is killing our ecosystem. According to the DFO, a sustainable harvest is around 250,000, yet only 30,000 are being killed each year.
Here are the facts: Each seal eats 11 pounds per day. Collectively, they eat 9.7 billion pounds per year. The entire Atlantic fishery lands less than 2.5 billion pounds.
We need to restore balance to our ecosystem. We need to feed Canadians. We need a Prime Minister who will remove the global trade barriers for seal harvesters in our country.